Slashdot interview re: vorbis

[Brent Harding]

Why are files I make in linux not playable in windows, shouldn't they be,
it can often say not a valid wave file.
Or was it a blank .wav that had nothing in it, don't think so.
At 05:56 PM 8/24/00 +1000, you wrote:
>Hi Brent:
>
>I see that you've already been given the command to write a WAV file from
>MPG123.  I might just point out that (A) Not all programs will pipe to
>standard output without being asked, and (B) there's vertually no need to
>ever pipe to arecord, as you could redirect outjput to a file.  For
>example:
>
>mpg123 -s filename.mp3 |arecord -m filename.wav
>
>would have done what you wanted, since the -s tells it to write to standard
>output (stdout).  But it's far more efficient to do this:
>
>mpg123 -s filename.mp3 >filename.wav
>
>This uses the shell to redirect standard output to a file.  You could use
>2 greaterthans to append rather than to rewrite.  Of course, this is a bad
>example since MPG123 will do it itself with -w which I recommend above both
>of the above.
>
>Geoff.
>
>
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