[vorbis] "skipping chunk" message

[Kenneth C. Arnold]

On Tuesday 26 November 2002 10:51 pm, Eric Seppanen wrote:
> What's this "skipping chunk" all about?

WAVs are a type of "RIFF" file. All information in them, such as your audio 
data but also header data like sample rate and format, are contained in 
chunks. oggenc knows about the chunks that matter for WAV files, and will use 
that information to determine what the data is and how to interpret it.

Some programs that write WAV files put in their own chunks, usually to hold 
some program-specific information, but sometimes (as it appears in this case) 
to pad some part of the file to a certain length. Since oggenc doesn't know 
about padding chunks -- and doesn't need to -- it just skips that chunk, and 
that message is telling you about it. AFAIK you can shut off that message, 
along with the rest of the noncritical messages, with -Q for quiet mode.

Ken

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