[Vorbis] Q: merging ogg files

[John Morton]

On Mon, 18 Oct 2004 14:38, Michael Smith wrote:
>  On Monday 18 October 2004 03:30, Guentcho Skordev wrote:
>  > Hello,
>  >
>  > I have read that one can merge OGG Vorbis files by simple concatenation.
>  > I have tried this with two files produced by "rec". However, the
>  > resuting file confuses xmms when I scroll and plays sometimes the first
>  > and sometimes the second part (xmms also shows the wrong file length,
>  > 14:29, the same length as the second file; first was 4:33).
>
>  For this to work, the files must have different serial numbers. Whatever
>  you're encoding the files with is probably giving them identical serial
>  numbers (which is poor application behaviour).
>
>  Having multiple logical streams in a single physical stream (file) with
> the same serial number is never allowed.

I think it's allowed if the stream isn't seekable, or, rather, you can get 
away with it in that case. 

It does sound like some sort of reserialization filter ought to be put 
together and included in libogg or some sort of helper library to stop 
developers from falling foul to this particular bit of house keeping.

John