[Vorbis] buggy vorbis encoder
Ben Collver
collver at peak.org
Sun Dec 3 20:58:03 PST 2006
Good day,
I bought an iAudio G3 digital player from Cowon, and was disappointed
when it failed to play some of my .ogg files. After inspecting the
individual files with ogginfo, patterns emerged. All of the problem
files were encoded with old libVorbis encoders, most circa 2001.
All of the problem files that caused the unit to lock up would report
many lines of "Negative granulepos on vorbis stream outside of headers.
This file was created by a buggy encoder."
All of the problem files that caused the unit to skip around and become
unresponsive would report "Note: Stream 1 has serial number 0, which is
legal but may cause problems with some tools."
Winamp and xmms play these files without problem. Ogginfo detects the
problems. Do there exist tools to repair Vorbis streams with a minimum
of quality loss? Is my best bet to decode the bad streams and then
re-encode them with a more recent libVorbis?
Thank you,
Ben
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