[vorbis] Ogg Vorbis in Audiograbber and more

[Matthew James Brown]

> Firstly, I'd really like the 'view file information' aspect of the
> WinAMP Vorbis plugin to work. It doesn't have to be able to EDIT the
> comments tags like the default one but I'd like to at least see the
> full path to the file and the comments. Oh and average bitrate.

That's already finished.  Actually it's exactly everything you just asked
for.  We're just waiting to put it into CVS and one small license change.

Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mat Bettinson" <mat at eurogamer.net>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 8:04 AM
Subject: [vorbis] Ogg Vorbis in Audiograbber and more

> Hello,
>
> Don't know if anyone cares but I was looking at the external encoder
> support in AudioGrabber 1.8 beta and saw a default entry for Oggenc.
>
> All well and good but speaking for myself, I wouldn't consider
> switching to Ogg Vorbis unless I could get all the proper id3-like
> comments and so on.
>
> So I experimented and came up with the following
>
> 1. Select "MP3 file via intermediate wav file. Delete the wav file"
> 1. Select External Encoder
> 2. Point "External MP3 program name" to where you've put oggenc.exe
> 3. Place -a "%1" -l "%2" -N %3 -t "%4" %s -o %d in the arguments box
> 4. File extension ogg
> 5. Tick only Encoder is Capable of using stdin/stdout... blah blah
>
> That arguments line appears to work quite nicely. This just leaves two
> 'issues' for me;
>
> Firstly, I'd really like the 'view file information' aspect of the
> WinAMP Vorbis plugin to work. It doesn't have to be able to EDIT the
> comments tags like the default one but I'd like to at least see the
> full path to the file and the comments. Oh and average bitrate.
>
> Secondly - what we *really* need is an encoder dll using the same sort
> of interface as the LAME encoder DLL etc. Is that a route being
> pursued or do you think integrated/internal support is more likely?
>
> I'd quite like to go back to encoding on the fly at some point.
>
> Other than the above, I'm blown away by the results on Beta 4 so far.
> Very nice indeed. I can't find a note if the current beta is using
> joint-stereo though?
>
> --
> Mat Bettinson - EuroGamer's Gaming Evangelist with a Goatee
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>
>
>
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