[vorbis-dev] wav output to stdout status?

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Sat, 5 May 2001, R.L. Horn wrote:

> On Fri, 4 May 2001 volsung at asu.edu wrote:
> 
> >>> The wav driver in libao (in CVS) does not support writing to STDOUT
> >>>and will probably never support that.
> 
> > The API for libao assumes a streaming source, so there is no way to
> > tell the library how long the audio is going to be.  That causes a
> > problem here, but it makes the interface simpler overall.
> 
> Why not use a temporary file?  Granted it's not really streaming, but it
> will get the output into a nonseekable stream (gotta keep them pipes and
> sockets happy, you know).

Bad, bad hack.  Don't like it, and we really don't need it.  If you need to
pipe audio to a source, you can now use the raw audio driver that was now just
committed to CVS (thanks Jack!).


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Stan Seibert

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