[vorbis-dev] Verifying stream integrity

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Monty wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 01:50:46AM -0500, Mike Hicks wrote:
> > Is there a good way to verify the integrity of an Ogg/Vorbis stream?  I
> > suffered some disk corruption a while back, and it'd be great if I could
> > have a tool that would help me determine which files need to be replaced.
> 
> ogg123 using the null device will complain if an Ogg file contains any
> bad or missing pages.  Of course, it's going through a full decode
> cycle too...
> 
> Kenneth/Mike/Jack: This would be an interesting feature and probably
> easy to implement...  Just use the paging abstraction of the ogg layer
> and leave out the actual decode step.

I've added this feature to ogginfo.  It runs way fast, and works with the few
test streams I could concoct.  Have fun.


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Stan Seibert

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