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

[Michael Gold]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 10:27:28 -0800, Michael Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 8:15 AM, ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com
> <ogg.k.ogg.k at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Is there any reason why vorbiscomment rebuilds pages from
> > packets, rather than just copying pages ?
> 
> Originally I wrote it that way because
>   1. I'm pretty sure that there are pathological cases you have to do
> like that, so it was easier to implement only that mode.
>   2. It also then doubles as a good basic 'ogg vorbis repair' tool
> (and nothing else existed at the time to do that).
> 
> Just copying pages where possible would be a good feature though.

Do you remember what the pathological cases were? The only one I can
think of is when header and non-header data are contained in the same
page. My patched version can't handle that, but running the file through
vcut should fix it.

-- Michael
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