Vorbis - Aug 2006 - Proposal: enhance ogginfo to not verify whole stream

Hi,

I'm using ogginfo a lot to get the comments section on the terminal. However
ogginfo always verifies (reads) the whole stream to print some more information.
I'd like to see an additional option that does just print the comments 
efficiently. For a player connected via USB 1, that would clearly make a 
difference. (I have a Perl script that renames files based on the comments, and
I
extract the comments via ogginfo. That seemed the simplest solution.)

Another useful option could print offset and length of the comments in the Ogg 
stream. I tried to find that out myself, but failed. The idea was to quickly 
(efficiently and dirtyly) replace the comments block with something different 
(actually debugging why my player would not like some files).

Regards,
Ulrich

On Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 08:14:20AM +0200, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> I'm using ogginfo a lot to get the comments section on the terminal.
However
> ogginfo always verifies (reads) the whole stream to print some more
information.
> I'd like to see an additional option that does just print the comments 
> efficiently. For a player connected via USB 1, that would clearly make a 
> difference. (I have a Perl script that renames files based on the comments,
and I
> extract the comments via ogginfo. That seemed the simplest solution.)
You know about 'vorbiscomment -l', right? Does that not work for what 
you want to do?

 -r