[vorbis] Streaming ogg from filepointer pointing to archive of many oggs. Ogg stream does not stop after end of one ogg file - what to do ?

[Kenneth C. Arnold]

Michael Smith wrote:
> There are two ways you can do this:

This depends on what sort of 'archive' he means.

If by 'archive' he means trying to play back an uncompressed tar or zip 
file in which you've stuffed Ogg's, then definitely implement callbacks 
to read the correct parts of the archive in the right order and keep 
track of what's going on. Anything less is necessarily somewhat sloppy. 
(This is Mike's option #2.)

If by 'archive' he actually means a bunch of Ogg's cat-ed together, then 
follow option #1. Ogg was designed for this. This case is what allows 
e.g. streaming radio to work. You can certainly query the vorbisfile 
library for any relevant information about each stream. If your stream 
is seekable, then it calculates and stores position, length, channel 
count, and other information about each stream as it loads. Otherwise, 
you can only get information for the current stream.

Apologies if any answers confused you.

Ken

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