[Vorbis-dev] vorbis-tools 1.3.0 BETA - Help testing.

[Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves]

Dear vorbis-dev lurkers, I bring you the first beta release of
vorbis-tools 1.3.0.  It has quite a few new features and the final
version will have even more, so I am sure it is to everyone's benefit
that it gets as much tested as possible so we can do a quick release.

Here's the changelog so far:
 * Fixed an error in configure.ac; --with-speex/flac work again (#1319)
 * Corrected problems in the Visual Studio project files
 * Updated po files from the Translation Project
 * Added new en_GB.po, eo.po, sk.po and vi.po translation files
 * Added AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to configure.ac; no more autogen.sh warnings
 * Corrected SUBLANG values in intl/localename.c (#1415)
 * Modify -v to -V on oggenc and oggdec for consistency (#1112)
 * Fix for utf8_decode in Windows; improves behavior in vorbiscomment (#268)
 * ogg123: backported fix from libfishsound to patch the Speex decoder (#1347)
 * ogg123: fixed CPU issue when outputting to a closed pipe (#1357)
 * ogg123: return value to stop decoding after buffer is shut down (#1357)
 * oggdec: gettextized help text (#1385)
 * oggenc: fixed a core dump while resampling from FLAC (#1316)
 * oggenc: fixed a typo in the Skeleton handling routine
 * oggenc: fixed remapping channels bug (#1326)
 * oggenc: support for WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE headers (#1326)
 * oggenc: support for 32 bit Wave files (#1326)
 * oggenc: --ignorelength; support for Wave files > 4 GB (#1326)
 * oggenc: split help text into manageable chunks to help translators (#1385)
 * oggenc: --utf8 command similar to vorbiscomment's --raw (#268)
 * oggenc: fixed the encoding of extended characters in Windows (#268)
 * oggenc: validate raw UTF-8 sent to oggenc (#268)
 * ogginfo: support for information in Kate streams (#1360)
 * vcut: 64 bit fixes (#1366)
 * vorbiscomment: correct memory allocation (#472)
 * vorbiscomment: validate raw UTF-8 sent to vorbiscomment (#268)

Those numbers at the end (#xxx) are Trac tickets in case you'd like to
know more about those issues.

Grab the source code at[1].  To compile in Windows use Visual Studio
or mingw.  To compile in Linux, automake will do.  If you don't want
to try to compile for yourself you'll have to wait for someone from
the community to do it for you.

Known bugs so far:
 * oggdec, if compiled with Visual Studio, will not work in Windows.
This will (hopefully) be fixed before the final release.
* a display problem in ogg123 if the terminal window is too small

Features expected to be in the final 1.3.0:
 * ReplayGain support in ogg123 (by William Poetra Yoga Hadisoeseno)
 * Lyrics (Ogg Kate) encoding in oggenc (by ogg.k.ogg.k)
 * Support for multi-line comments in vorbiscomment (by three
different authors since 2002)
 * And possibly a big rewrite of vcut (by Michael Gold) if it's finished on time

-Ivo

[1] http://spreadopenmedia.org/tmp/vorbis-tools-1.3.0b1.tar.gz
sha1 checksum: 7e0d6e487d0be7bd1926962b0a225362626f6477