Vorbis dev - Dec 2007 - solution to oggsplt / vcut crashing

Dear vorbis-dev

I tried to split an ogg file which was downloaded as a part of a stream
with mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile file.ogg http://..../stream.ogg. The
metadata or headers or what it is is then of course in error. (I hate
this problem.)
Both vcut (I'd post version if vcut supported a --version or -V option)
and oggsplt (= mp3splt (same about version)) (according to this page,
they have the same code) crashes upon trying to split it.

I'm running Ubuntu 7.10

This program managed to split the file (your list a > couple of years ago):
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis/2005-February/025676.html
(links to
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis/attachments/20050213/3e9ffc26/vex.tar.bin)

Sincerely,
Ola Vikholt

Hi Ola,

On 26/11/2007, Ola Vikholt <ola@brunborg.org>
wrote:
> Both vcut (I'd post version if vcut supported a --version or -V option)
> and oggsplt (= mp3splt (same about version)) (according to this page,
> they have the same code) crashes upon trying to split it.
>
> This program managed to split the file (your list a > couple of years
ago):
> http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis/2005-February/025676.html
> (links to
>
http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis/attachments/20050213/3e9ffc26/vex.tar.bin)
ok, perhaps we should consider replacing vcut with vex, or at least
putting vex into vorbis-tools.

I haven't looked into it yet, but does anyone here have any
understanding about that already? ie. are there any corner cases that
vex misses etc.

cheers,

Conrad.