[vorbis-dev] Vorbisfile: non-seekable

[Olaf van der Spek]

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From: "Michael Smith" <msmith at labyrinth.net.au>
To: <vorbis-dev at xiph.org>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 9:59 AM
Subject: Re: [vorbis-dev] Vorbisfile: non-seekable

>
> >So all data is already in memory and passed to ov_open.
> >This stream is not seekable. Why not?
> >And shouldn't it be seekable?
>
> That's how it's designed, this is the correct behaviour.

Ah, ok.

> If you want seekable access to a stream existing in memory,
> provide callbacks for this, and don't pass the buffer in as
> initial. Slightly harder, but not much.

Wouldn't it be better/easier to modify vorbisfile, so everybody in this
situation benefits, instead of all having to write the same callbacks?

>
> Michael
>
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