[vorbis] Various Ogg Vorbis largefile notes and/or patches

[Segher Boessenkool]

> Is there actually some way to get the real data size for 'big' WAV 
> files?

Only for RIFF files that contain only one audio chunk, and nothing else.
There's no foolproof way to determine if a file is such a file, though.

> Or
> is there a magic constant for the data size that is used to mean 
> 'ignore
> this, just read to the end of the file'?

There is no such thing.  (Not standardized, that is).

> I'd also be unsurprised if there are places in oggenc where datatypes 
> need
> changing anyway to work properly with large files

Indeed.

>  - patches for those are
> very welcome regardless.

Amen.

<p>Segher

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