[vorbis] Re: ogg123 and stdout

[Michael Smith]

At 11:44 PM 4/15/01 +0200, you wrote:
>On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 11:44:42 +0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>
>>You can use "ogg123 -d wav -o file:/dev/stdout ..." for writing to
>>stdout.  At the end, ogg123 will try to lseek() back to the beginning
>>to complete the wav header, which will result in a harmless error
>>message.
>
>but it seems that there is something wrong with the wav header:
>
>$ ogg123 http://popstation.de:8002/2.ogg -d wav -o file:/dev/stdout |
>sox -t wav - cap.wav

The wav header can't be written until the end. Going through stdout makes
it unable to do this. It probably should write an almost-correct header and
then go back and correct it, but doesn't. Regardless, expecting wav to work
is silly.

Michael

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