[vorbis-dev] Thoughts on vorbisfile

[Monty]

> Vorbisfile is very useful, and very easy to use. It is, however, tied to
> stdio - which means you can't use it for lots of other stuff where it'd be
> useful - like streaming, or (under win32) avoiding stdio and using the
> win32 file functions (which might have some advantages). Reimplementing
> much of vorbisfile, or copy/pasting it into another program, seems to
> rather wasteful, and vorbisfile does everything that a decoder needs.

Martin Vogt has already written the patch you suggest.  I have a minor tweak I
want to make to it before committing it to mainline.  It's all bottlenecked on
me again :-(

> A seperate version of ov_open() could be available, which would take 3
> extra arguments - to function pointers for these functions. 

Actually, a structure of functions, because there's more callbacks that I want 
to add than just three stdio functions.

Monty

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