Vorbis - Feb 2005 - [Fwd: Better ogg cutting tool]

Hi List,

here's a forwarded message from Craig Duncan, who wrote a replacement
for vcut. As he is not on the list and I kinda participated in the
discussion about vcut, he sent the mail to me.
I'm sorry it took me so long to forward it, I was in vacation. :)

I've attached the source.
@Craig: How about putting up a small page with your program? I can put
it on my page if you don't want to do it yourself.

-------- Forwarded Message -------- 
> I've written a replacement for vcut which works much better.
> I had a problem using vcut on streamed ogg files (it just crashes).
> And thus the need to write something better.
> 
> I emailed Michael Smith and he suggested i post the existence of my
> program to vorbis-dev.  I'm not subscribed to that list so i got an
> automatic response back saying that the moderator would either post
> it themself or contact me.  Have heard nothing 3 days later.
> 
> So, if you don't mind, how about announcing that there is now a program
> that works much better than vcut.  I don't care much about licensing
> so i just put it under GPL version 2, same as vcut.
> 
> By the way, the guy who wrote mp3splt lifted his ogg-related code
> _straight_ (and i mean straight) from vcut.  It crashes exactly the
> same way for the same reasons because it is the _same_ code.  Once i
> discovered that i realized i needed to write something better.
> 
> It's not that big so rather than going round and round about this,
> here's the code.  Feel free to post it if anyone else is interested.
> Thanks very much,
> 
> craig
> 
> P.S.  It needs to include i18n.h (copied from vcut) and ogg.h.  Just
> needs to link with libogg and libvorbis.
ie.: # gcc -o vex -lvorbis -logg vex.c

I've included a small Makefile.

As Craig is not on the list, please include him in responses/questions
or send them to me.

-- Daniel


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Daniel Schregenberger wrote:
> Hi List,
> 
> here's a forwarded message from Craig Duncan, who wrote a replacement
> for vcut. As he is not on the list and I kinda participated in the
> discussion about vcut, he sent the mail to me.
> I'm sorry it took me so long to forward it, I was in vacation. :)
> 
> I've attached the source.
> @Craig: How about putting up a small page with your program? I can put
> it on my page if you don't want to do it yourself.
<snip>

I hadn't thought through what i was going to do with this once it was
written.  I
just needed it and wrote it.  In fact, my original (naive) idea of sharing it
was
just to give it to Michael Smith.  :-)  But i got some good advice from John
Morton
so i've created a SourceForge project.  I'm waiting for approval of the
"project",
which i'm anticipating will be soon.

So i'll put it up there and email a link when there's something there. 
I've also had
a chance to get some feedback about usability enhancements (being able to
specify
multiple cutpoints) and have decided (and started on) writing a C extension for
Ruby
for the low-level ogg functions.  I'm going to reimplement my program in
Ruby so i'll
be able to write the command-line processing (including being able to take
cut-info
from a file) in Ruby rather than C.

I think i'll put the original C source up, also, if that is more convenient
for
anyone (enough to compensate for the lack of more sophisticated
option-handling).
It'll be a few days (at least) before the Ruby port is up.

At that point i'll be ready for more enhancement suggestions.

craig

P.S.  Thanks Daniel.  Hope you had a good vacation.  :-)