[NUT-devel] libnut/nututils testing, call for developers/code audit

[Rich Felker]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 06:31:19AM +0200, Oded Shimon wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 06:13:39PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 03:06:15PM -0800, Corey Hickey wrote:
> > > Oded Shimon wrote:
> > > > $ svn checkout svn://213.144.138.186/nut/trunk
> > > > 
> > > > read README
> > > > 
> > > > Start testing. Or even hacking. I have absoloutely no intention of 
> > > > maintaining all this by myself... Especially not code auditing it, cause I 
> > > > suck at that. If anyone wants write access, ask me and I'll ask Diego...
> > > 
> > > I tried it out; there's not a lot to report.
> > > 
> > > - Converting an xvid/mp3 avi file worked fine.
> > > - Converting a vorbis ogg file worked fine.
> > 
> > I don't think it worked fine...since nutmerge is making invalid files
> > with nonsense pseudopackets. MPlayer just happens to play these files.
> 
> About that, nutmerge still prints the warning about "invalid" files. I 
> don't know how valid the files converted from AVI are, they are just stream 
> copied,

They're almost surely invalid unless the source was created by
mencoder in vbr mode.

> but the files converted from Ogg are perfectly valid as there is a 
> Vorbis framer. (The comment packet from Vorbis should be stripped 
> though...)

Well, at least an empty comment packet needs to be stored as part of
the three-part vorbis extradata. I would suggest always emptying it
though since this data belongs in the info packets and not the vorbis
headers. :)

Rich