[Vorbis-dev] command line perl tool to create ogg/Vorbis picture comments

[Silvia Pfeiffer]

Nice work! You should put it in the xiph repository or release some other way.

Cheers,
Silvia.

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 14 April 2012 23:40, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 14 April 2012 23:34, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> http://pastebin.com/xXhPyZuQ
>>
>>> ./jpegtoblock.pl  -i DSCN7376.JPG -o flacblock
>>
>>> You'll need to add the "METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE=" which makes it into a
>>> comment file yourself.
>>>
>>
>> Like:
>> echo -n "METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE=" | cat - flacblock > flacblock.comment
>
> It turns out I'm crazy...
>
> https://github.com/imalone/oggflacblock
> Or direct from (n.b. BSD license):
> https://raw.github.com/imalone/oggflacblock/master/oggflacblock.pl
>
> Now handles png and jpeg, the only notable dependency is the Perl
> Image::ExifTool module. (Which, I've noticed, can also read Vorbis
> comments)
>
> Includes usage info with -h or -help, but interesting things:
> ./oggflacblock.pl -i sample.png -o sample.tag -write tag -desc "Some
> description" -type FileIconSmall
>
> -write tag : produces a file with the "METADATA_BLOCK_PICTURE=" start,
> so you can plug it straight into vorbiscomment. This is the default,
> so you can do this:
> vorbiscomment startfile.ogg newfile.ogg -a -c sample.tag
> the other options are block64 (just the block as before) and blockraw
> (don't 64bit encode)
>
> -type, can be numeric, or I've come up with some short-names for the
> different entries that you can specify instead.
>
> FileIconSmall is restricted to 32x32 png, this is enforced.
>
> Shortcomings:
> * Doesn't do the "->" mode.
> * Doesn't provide the palette count, I haven't tried to figure that out.
> * For JPEG finds bit depth as bits per sample * channel count. This
> might not be correct.
> * Haven't made certain the description handling is UTF-8 clean, may
> depend on locale at the moment.
> * It's in Perl. But if it wasn't I'd still be trying to finish it.
> * Testing is still patchy, the raw headers look right and the jpeg
> results are identical to those from the earlier version (which I tried
> out today in Media Monkey and appear to work).
>
> --
> imalone
> http://ibmalone.blogspot.co.uk
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