[GOODIE] OggPlugin

Joshua 'Schwa' Gargus schwa at cc.gatech.edu
Sun Aug 24 22:45:53 UTC 2003


Hi Russell,

That's great!  Or almost great... I couldn't file in OggPlugin.2.cs
because it didn't have a class definition for OGGFile.  Did you test
it by filing into a clean image?

Best,
Joshua

On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 11:10:35PM +1000, Russell Penney wrote:
> This is a plugin to play OGG/Vorbis files in Squeak.
> 
> It is VERY simple and I have only tested it with OGG files I have on my
> machine. Also I am not a programmer by any stretch of the imagination
> (either c or smalltalk) so the implementation is probably buggy and not
> to be trusted with your beer or women.
> I am posting it mainly to get comments back from the brains trust.
> In the process of writing it I have found that plugins are a black art,
> some do's and don't's from the expert about memory allocation in plugins
> would be a very good thing. The sound system makes no sense to me and
> some explanation of the main functions is required (actually I think a
> complete rewrite as there are some very strange dependencies built into
> it).
> I have stolen I mean been inspired by the MPEG plugin (thank you John)
> i.e. I have copied MPEGFile and StreamingMP3File and ripped out the
> functions I didn't need.


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