[vorbis-dev] What to do if I get an OV_HOLE

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Tue Feb 13 12:32:10 PST 2001



On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:18:35PM -0800, Lars Brubaker wrote:
> I'm calling ov_read(); and it is returing an error message of OV_HOLE.  What
> should I do with this?  Can I just try and re-read the data?  Do I need to
> backup and try again?  Any advice would be great.

OV_HOLE is only alerting the application that a page was
corrupted/dropped/lost or there was garbage in the stream.  The app
can safely ignore the error and retry if it doesn't care.

Monty

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