[vorbis] Using vorbisfile with an in-memory file instead of FILE*

[Olaf van der Spek]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Smith" <msmith at labyrinth.net.au>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 30, 2000 6:32 AM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] Using vorbisfile with an in-memory file instead of
FILE*

> >
> >>
> >> >Callbacks are done, see code. I was indeed testing and was wondering
why
> >it
> >> >didn't work.
> >>
> >> Should work. I don't have a satisfactory explanation for why it
doesn't.
> >If
> >> you could provide a (minimal) example where it fails (the whole thing,
> >> rather than just bits of it), I'll try and track it down.
> >
> >Ok, the above code should be the whole example that doesn't use my own
> >functions.
> >It hangs on ov_open.
>
> Thanks. You're right, it doesn't work. I don't actually have time to track
> down the problem exactly until I get back from a short trip, but I'll try
> and fix it early next week. Looks (from a very quick check - could be
> wrong) like it's stuck in a loop going between _get_next_page and
> _get_prev_page, in the internals of vorbisfile.
>
> This doesn't change the fact that this isn't how vorbisfile is meant to be
> used, and doing it this way isn't terribly sensible. Also, since you
> presumably aren't interested in seeking, you could just use libvorbis
> directly - quite straightforward for straight-through decode from memory
> buffers. Probably still slightly easier to write callbacks to return data
> from your memory buffers.

As I've said in another posts, the callbacks are done and the function is
working ok at this point.
I just thought you would like to be interested to hear about this, as it's
not completely ok.

>
> Michael
>
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