[Vorbis] arecord/oggenc stops after 3 hours 45 minutes 47 seconds

[Andreas Bergstrøm]

On Aug 23, 2004, at 9:35 PM, Ralph Giles wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 11:49:27AM -0700, Eric Smith wrote:
>
>> I've tracked the problem down to abuse of the C type size_t in
>> aplay.c.  So I'm pretty sure it's not a problem in oggenc.
>
> Hmm. Wouldn't have expected that from alsa, though if it's saving
> as 'wav' you have to sort of hack the pipe output support. Anyway,
> no, there's not reason oggenc should have trouble with large files.

Well, either oggenc or the players have problems with extremely large 
oggfiles (three days or more), we are using oggenc and icecast to 
stream several radio channels in Ogg/Vorbis and after some days, all 
players refuse to play the streams.

May you live long and spamless,

Andreas Bergstrøm