Re: GStreamer 0.01

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On May 25, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Matthias Bläsing wrote:

> BUT (Please! Don't hurt me ;-)
>
> It's getting strange again:
>
> I have a mp3 file, which (according to perl):
>
> Total (Tag):1165425152    (Tag Information Length)
> Total (Dec):57965714285   (Decoder Information Length)
>
> And this is, what python has to say about it:
>
> Total (Tag):57000000000
> Total (Dec):57965714285
>
> Oh why does perl change the variable????


57965714285 / 2^32
13

The number is 13 times too big to fit into a 32-bit integer.  Perl's  
IV (integer value) is guaranteed to be as big as a pointer on your  
platform.  If you're on a 32-bit platform, IV is 32 bits, and the 64- 
bit count of nanoseconds in the file is being truncated.

The GStreamer bindings will probably have to depend on Math::BigInt  
for these numbers.

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