[vorbis] Seeking in a saved stream; or,Why isn't that sucker valid?

[volsung at asu.edu]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Stephen Commiskey wrote:

> Stan Seibert wrote:
> >feature, really.  The granulepos numbers (used to compute time) don't have to
> >start at zero, and usually won't in a stream you download.  (Time 0 is usually
> >when the stream was first started.)  Ogginfo should probably subtract the
> >start time from the end time, rather than just assume the end time is the
> >total time.
> 
> So would it be simple to generate a fresh stream with correct granulepos
> numbers (e.g., read the input stream, start granulepos at zero, spit out
> the stream to a new file)?

Fairly simple, though that doesn't address the corruption problem.  In that
case, ogginfo is getting confused by the final corrupted packet.  (Since the
download is terminated manually, the last packet is most likely incomplete.)


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Stan Seibert

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