[vorbis] Accurate seeking in a streamed file?

Michael Smith msmith at labyrinth.net.au
Thu Oct 10 05:32:37 PDT 2002



At 05:12 AM 10/10/02 -0700, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Is it possible to accurately seek to a certain
>position in an OGG file that is streamed off the
>hard-drive/CD?

Yes. Vorbis provides sample-accurate seeking (and indeed uses sample-
accurate seeking by default - less accurate seeking is available, but
not widely used by players). 

ov_seek_pcm() will take an offset (from the start) in samples,
so for precise seeking this is the easiest function to use.

Mike

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