[Vorbis] Proposal: enhance ogginfo to not verify whole stream

Ralph Giles giles at xiph.org
Mon Aug 28 23:25:58 PDT 2006


On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:14:20AM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote:

> I'm using ogginfo a lot to get the comments section on the terminal. However 
> ogginfo always verifies (reads) the whole stream to print some more information.
> I'd like to see an additional option that does just print the comments 
> efficiently. For a player connected via USB 1, that would clearly make a 
> difference. (I have a Perl script that renames files based on the comments, and I 
> extract the comments via ogginfo. That seemed the simplest solution.)

You know about 'vorbiscomment -l', right? Does that not work for what 
you want to do?

 -r


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