[vorbis-dev] Decode questions

[robert at moon.eorbit.net]

Sorry, to interrupt the license flame war...

I downloaded the source from CVS as of 11am this morning and there are
a couple of issues that I ran into:

1) I built the package and then in the examples dir I executed the
following commands:

# cdparanoia -B 1-1  
# ./encoder-example < track01.cdda.wav > test.vor
# ./decoder-example < test.vor > out.wav

The rip and the encode both work fine. test.vor is 22280990 bytes (!)
and track01.cdda.wav is 57998012 bytes long. decoder-example sez:

  Track encoded by encoder_example.c

  Bitstream is 0 channel, 0Hz
  Encoded by: Xiphophorus libVorbis I 20000121

  Floating point exception 

I haven't bothered to dig into the source to find out what is going on
-- before I do that I wanted to inquire about the current status of the
codebase in CVS. Should this work? Or is this a case of operator error?

Next, I dug into the source for decoder_example.c and I saw that in the
decode cycle at the end the file does the double -> 16 bit unsigned int
conversion as the last step, outside the decoder. Are there any plans
to have the Vorbis synthesis layer take care of this step? I ask this,
since this decoder/convert step moves the WAV data across the system
bus a time more than is necessary. This could be avoided by simply
carrying out the integer conversion before the decoded data is written
to the output buffer.

I also get the feeling that this might be jumping the gun a little bit.
:-)

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Robert Kaye -- robert at moon.eorbit.net  http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert

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