[vorbis-dev] wav output to stdout status?

[ben at slumber.dhs.org]

On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:37:17PM -0700, volsung at asu.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 4 May 2001, Peter Surda wrote:
> 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > The version of ogg123 (or perhaps libao I think) says that the wav output
> > can't go to STDOUT. Is this feature supported already in the current CVS?
> 
> The wav driver in libao (in CVS) does not support writing to STDOUT and will
> probably never support that.  WAV files cannot be written correctly by libao
> unless it can seek back to the beginning of the file and write the file
> length, which is not possible with stdout.  The correct solution is use a

Isn't it possible to determine the length in samples of a vorbis stream
if it's in a file on disk?

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