[vorbis] Re: ogg123 and stdout

[smoerk at gmx.de]

On Mon, 16 Apr 2001 12:29:39 +1000, Michael Smith wrote:

>>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.

no it's not silly. i use this reqularly with other programs like sox,
oggenc, lame, etc. a unix program with cannot write to stdout is silly
;). the problem with raw pcm is that you don't know the sampling
frequency and channels sometimes, so you need a header for piping from
one program to another.

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