OT (pipes) - Was RE [vorbis] EAC: Ogg-on-the-fly?

[Myles Buckley]

>>Assuming someprog writes raw 16-bit signed stereo PCM to its
>>standard output, the following encodes the output of someprog to
>>foo.ogg, without using any temporary file :
>>
>>  someprog | oggenc -r -o foo.ogg - 
>>
>>For example, to encode track 1 of the audio CD in the drive :
>>
>>  cdparanoia -r 1 - | oggenc -r -o track1.ogg -
>>
>>Caveat : last time I looked, DOS implemented pipes with temporary
>>files.
>
>Be warned that stdin encoding is broken in oggenc rc3. cvs is fine.
>

Also be warned that temmporary files in DOS prompts (under windows 9x at
least) seem to have a size limit around the 2gig mark.  I could never stream
more than 2gigs of capture data into a pipe on my win9x box (I have never
encountered this behaviour using W2K on NTFS.)

Myles.

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