[vorbis-dev] vorbis-tools CVS

[Michael Smith]

At 04:54 PM 6/26/02 -0400, you wrote:
>Coming out of a long (but definately needed) silence for a moment:
>
>A few things for vorbis-tools, since I no longer have CVS access (I
>think I just misplaced that key):
>
>1. Before anything, put oggchain out of its misery. Please. It's a
>pile of junk that should have never been committed. Any smidgen of
>usefulness from it belongs in ogginfo anyway (and it's already there).

This was on my todo list already.

>
>2. ./autogen.sh should check for the presence of gettext. Without it,
>aclocal gives just a warning and ./configure fails with a cryptic
>error message.

Autotools people, who wants to claim/fix this one?

>
>3. Quick patch to ./autogen.sh:

Applied. 

>4. CFLAGS are huge. Could we possibly use config.h (currently empty)?

We should. Maybe this could be part of a larger auto* cleanup?

>
>5. ogginfo2 notes / testing:
>* doesn't like standard input
>* doesn't give any output on tiny (1-byte) stream, not even error
>* doesn't tell when headers are incomplete, and gives junk info for
>the stream length and nan for the bitrate
>* doesn't say anything if I put 1k of random data at the end of a
>truncated stream, only 10k (then it says "Hole in data found.")
>* output wishlist:
> - bitrate name is inconsistant: kb/s or kpbs
> - some section headers in the output have ':', others '...'
> - some sections of data are indented, some not
> - printf-style formatted output
> - line up the default output

Thanks for the feedback. I'll do these some time soon. 

>
>Comments welcome. I considered indenting all the info for one logical
>stream, but it seems like too much indentation. That might work better
>if the indentation was reduced to 4 or 2 spaces, though. If people
>like this, I can work on a patch.
>
>Other than that, ogginfo2 seems to work fine on everything I've thrown
>at it, which would be probably rc1 through rc3 streams.

Good. It needs more testing on multiplexed and chained streams, mainly.

Michael

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