[vorbis] Winamp plugin.

[Olaf van der Spek]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matthew James Brown" <mbrown at hotteam.org>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 5:25 PM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] Winamp plugin.

> > I wrote about this once but it was ignored...  I don't know if it's only
> > my system's problem but I suspect it isn't.  My system does know what a
> > network looks like :-), so every time httpInit is called - once at every
> > winamp startup - it pops up an annoying "Error Initializing
> > Windows Sockets" message and doesn't proceed until I press OK.
>
> Did you mean that your system does not know what a network is?  I'll take
a
> look at this and maybe introduce (config dialog) a way to turn off the
> streaming code if you know that you problems with it or don't want winamp
to
> ever use streaming.  Unfortunatly this is a bit sloppy.  It might be
> possible to only initialize the http code if you are going to use a stream
> but that may not be an allowed behavior of a socket.  To initialize ever
> time you run a stream that is.  Aaron, Michael, Chris, is it possible or

Why not initialize just before you open the first stream?

> just a bad idea?  ;-)
>
> Unreleated issue:  I get an even worse problem when I try to start a
> streamed file with no internet connection.  Winamp freezes up completely
and
> I have to shut it down.  I'll be looking at both of these things in the
days
> to come.  Aaron, this is a bug that I recently found, although it may just
> be something with my system.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Matt
>
>
> --- >8 ----
> List archives:  http://www.xiph.org/archives/
> Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
> To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request at xiph.org'
> containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body.  No subject is needed.
> Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.
>

--- >8 ----
List archives:  http://www.xiph.org/archives/
Ogg project homepage: http://www.xiph.org/ogg/
To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to 'vorbis-request at xiph.org'
containing only the word 'unsubscribe' in the body.  No subject is needed.
Unsubscribe messages sent to the list will be ignored/filtered.