[vorbis] vcut breaks song index ? XMMS search fails

[Michael Smith]

On Thursday 28 August 2003 11:09, Sebastien Cevey wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have experienced some problems with vcut
> (media-sound/vorbis-tools-1.0-r1 package from Gentoo/Linux).
>
> I have a long live record I have encoded in OGG (maybe it would have
> been easier to cut the WAV file and encode the parts, but still). The
> file was encoded with oggenc from the same package as vcut.
>
> I have therefore tried to use vcut to split the long OGG file in
> several smaller files.
>

vcut is a proof-of-concept tool. It is known to have bugs (some of them 
serious) - if you want a real tool to do this, you'll have to find or write 
one (possibly - but not neccesarily - based on vcut).

Patches are welcomed, but I have no intention of doing any more work myself 
with vcut. I'm considering dropping it from vorbis-tools for the next 
release, as it obviously causes some confusion.

Arc's comments on vcut are partially correct (but gets some technical details 
wrong: granulepos is never negative, and vcut completely rewrites the stream 
rather than only the start), and his description of alternatives is a good 
idea to follow, if you want to.

Mike

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