[vorbis] Songs stopping early on my player

[Monty]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:18:21AM +1000, Michael Smith wrote:
> At 12:38 AM 7/17/01 +1200, you wrote:
> >
> >I suspect the stopping behaviour is my mishandling of either OV_EBADLINK or
> >OV_HOLE.
> >What should I be doing if either of these values are returned by ov_read?
> 
> OV_HOLE means "It looks like something was missing here". For a file, 
> that's usually an indication it's corrupt. For a stream, it's normal.
> Either way, it's completely non-fatal. You may want to inform the user
> in some way that it occurred, but other than that, just keep decoding.

Yes, this will only happen in a corrupt file.

> OV_EBADLINK is, I think, a serious error which isn't recoverable. You 
> should stop decode (I'm not certain about that, though, without checking
> the code).

It's recoverable and means mostly that the headers for a specific link
in a chained file were corrupt, so the link can't be decoded.  Of
course, this isn't ever going to happen in the middle of playback of a
single-bitstream file.  If you don't have a chained file (if you don't
know, then you don't have one) and you get this error, your C code is
corrupting the heap.

Monty

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