[Ffmpeg-devel] ogg vorbis encode?

[Rich Felker]

On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 09:23:00AM -0400, Justin Ruggles wrote:
> Guillaume POIRIER wrote:
> > Considering that a patch to support it is on the works (see:
> > [Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] vbr audio encode) I assume that it's not
> > possible to encode using vorbis in FFmpeg for the moment.
> 
> The patch is for adding vbr support.  I can add the support, but it will
> be pointless if vorbis doesn't work.  Just for the hell of it, I tried
> vorbis wrapped in AVI.  From what I've read, that's not even supposed to
> work, but ffplay will play it.

It does work, it's just very ugly and inefficient.

> I guess that means the problem might be
> in the ogg muxer?  Even doing '-acodec copy' on a valid ogg results in
> an invalid ogg.

Probably so. Ogg has very stupid codec header storage, and the muxer
probably doesn't store the headers.. :(

Rich