[Vorbis-dev] OGG loads as a naked file, but not if embedded in an IFF.

[Conrad Parker]

On 17 December 2013 09:53, <dave at 661.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Conrad Parker wrote:
>
>  On 17 December 2013 09:38, <dave at 661.org> wrote:
>>       On Tue, 17 Dec 2013, Conrad Parker wrote:
>>
>>             I like libsndfile, but it's not designed to support
>>             Ogg-in-AIFF. If your
>>             game only needs to support these specific filetypes
>>             that you generate, one
>>             of which isn't supported by libsndfile, then perhaps
>>             there's no need to use
>>             libsndfile here.
>>
>>
>> The Ogg files aren't in an AIFF, but an IFF container called Blorb.
>>  It looks like I have to use libsndfile anyhow.  My code for loading
>> AIFFs only works for 8-bit samples and I can't figure out how to get
>> things to work for 16-bit AIFFs or how to adjust their volumes
>> properly.
>>
>>
>> Ah ok, yes libsndfile is great for loading AIFF but it probably doesn't
>> yet
>> have support for Blorb ;)
>>
>
> I already have a library for parsing Blorb files.  There is no need for
> libsndfile to support it.  A Blorb file contains AIFFs, MODs, and OGGs as
> chunks.  Generally what the Blorb library does is check the index chunk for
> the sound clip desired and return a filepointer to the beginning of that
> clip.  It seems to me that it would make no difference to libsndfile if the
> file pointer (well, handle) points to a naked file or a portion of a
> container file (a Blorb file).  This doesn't bother libsndfile if I'm
> loading an AIFF the same way.


right. Are you using libsndfile's virtual io functions for that?

Conrad.
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