[vorbis] Doh! Re: Anyone working on a Windows decoder?

[Matt and Karin Lawson]

Doh! (in Homer Simpson voice)

I feel silly now.  I didn't know it would do that, but sure enough I tried it
and it works like a charm!  This is a significant ability that I think needs
to be advertised better.  I've had people visit my Vorbis-content website
and comment "Well, if I could decode it back to WAV files, I might be
willing to use Vorbis..."

If anyone else is wondering, all you do is click on the top left corner of
Winamp
to bring up the menu.  Go to "Options" and then "Preferences".  Now click on
'Nullsoft Disk Writer Plugin".  Click on "Configure" and select the directory
where to want the WAV files to go.  Click on "close".  Now select some songs
as if you were going to play them.  When you hit 'Play', it will write them to
disk as WAV files instead of playing them.  To return to normal operation,
go back to "Options" -> "Preferences" and click on "Nullsoft Wave Out Plugin".
Click "close" and you're back to normal.

I hope this helps speed Vorbis' adoption...

- Matt

Richard Newton wrote:

> Why not just use the winamp Vorbis plugging with thw wav output?
>
> --- Matt and Karin Lawson <lawson at qns.com>
> > wrote:
> >Hello,
> >
> >It seems to me like one of the next high priority tools should be a
> >Windows ogg->wav decoder.  I think this would help speed up the
> >acceptance of Vorbis since people could just make their own audio CDs
> >from it.  Is anyone working on this?  Does the decoder_example provide
> >most of what is needed to do it?  Is it just a matter of wrapping the
> >WAV structure around it and compiling it on a Windows machine?
> >
> >Just wondering...
> >
> >- Matt
> >
> >
> >
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