[ogg-dev] eos on continued page

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

Posted it to trac bug tracking at https://trac.xiph.org/ticket/1308 and to
http://wiki.xiph.org/index.php/RFC_3533_Errata.

Cheers,
Silvia.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:42 AM, Conrad Parker <conrad at metadecks.org>
wrote:

> On 26/02/2008, Ralph Giles <giles at xiph.org> wrote:
> > On 25-Feb-08, at 9:34 AM, xiphmont at xiph.org wrote:
> >
> >  > I'd say both; libogg should ignore the incomplete packet or flag a
> >  > structural error, and the spec should be clarified.
> >
> > I guess libogg should return -1 if you try to ogg_stream_packetout()
> >  after the eos packet.
> >
> >  The eos flag pretty clearly applies to the *page* not the packet, so
> >  I think how that gets translated into the corresponding ogg_packet
> >  structure is a matter for the libogg api documentation, not the spec.
>
> ok. If the correct behaviour should be to ignore the incomplete
> packet, that should also be clarified in the spec.
>
> I'd find it useful if it was not considered a structural error, as it
> allows us to very simply chop files apart and put them back together.
> The eos flag on the page is then a very clear way of saying to ignore
> the extra data during decode.
>
> As far as the libogg API is concerned, I reckon it should also set
> op->e_o_s on the last completed packet on a page marked eos.
>
> cheers,
>
> Conrad.
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