[vorbis] Re: ogg123 and stdout

[fungus]

Michael Smith wrote:
> 
> At 11:44 PM 4/15/01 +0200, you wrote:
> >On Sat, 14 Apr 2001 11:44:42 +0000 (UTC), Christian Weisgerber wrote:
> >
> >$ 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.

I don't think you can do a seek in stdout.

It should buffer up the data in memory until it knows enough
to write the header.

> Regardless, expecting wav to work is silly.
> 

Why?

PS: Unix wouldn't do it that way anyway, in Unix you'd do:

oggtoraw <myfile.ogg | rawtowav >myfile.wav


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