[ogg-dev] liboggz and packets versus segments ...

[Ralph Giles]

On 31-Jul-08, at 12:26 AM, Warwick Baker wrote:
> The part I don't understand is why the read_packet callback only  
> gets invoked on my test file when the full 600 bytes have been  
> read, noting that it is written to file as 3 segments on the page  
> (lengths, FF, FF and 5A I think it was). But when the sample spx  
> file gets read, the read_packet callback gets called for each  
> segment, which by the way are all of size 20 bytes, and returns  
> only 20 bytes at a time.
>

Segments aren't exposed by the API, they're just used internally to  
partition the data. What liboggz feeds you are *packets* which should  
be the exactly the same units that were feed when the file was written.

So if you gave it 600 byte packets writing the file, you get a  
callback every 600 bytes reading the file. Speex packets are much  
smaller, so you get a callback every 20 bytes (or so) reading a speex  
file. It's just maintaining the original packet boundaries,  
regardless of how many segments the packets occupy.

Make sense?

  -r