Re: bonobo-media and Ogg Vorbis

[Ali Abdin <aliabdin aucegypt edu>]

On 07 Jan 2001 03:02:16 +0100, ERDI Gergo wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ali Abdin wrote:
> 
> > Right now you are using the bitrate as the the positions per second
> > right? Is it wrong to use the bitrate for this? Should I use the
> > size/length as done for MP3?
> 
> You should use whatever Vorbis uses internally, so you can seek easily.
> You can use nano-lunar months for all bonobo-media cares -- just supply a
> ratio to make conversion to seconds possible.
> 
> > Does that mean you plan to abandon SMPEG? or a modified SMPEG (without
> > SDL)? Note: there is no sound solution being planned at all from GNOME.
> 
> SMPEG supports audio playback without SDL (you get the raw decoded audio
> data in a void*)

Ahh, right :) Well, as soon as you find a way to play this raw decoded
audio, please tell me :)

I spent all this morning trying to get the vorbis stream to output to
esd using a thread. Unfortunately, esd wouldn't return a socket (kept
returning -1). Then I said screw it, and decided to use OSS (output
directly to /dev/dsp). Unfortunately though, I keep getting only static,
which kinda has me perplexed. Oh well. I might next try to use the libao
library and let it handle the audio output.

Regards,
Ali