I've uploaded version 0.2 of the utility to 'my earlier post'
(http://forums.slimdevices.com/showpost.php?p=72544&postcount=3).  The
changes are not required for most people, so there's no urgency in
downloading it.  The main change is a new option, *--truncate-input
BYTES*, which allows one to force the utility to stop processing beyond
a certain point in the input file.  Here's why:

smst Wrote: 
> Myself, I've just got hold of Porcupine Tree's re-release of "Stupid
> Dream", complete with new 5.1 DTS mix, so I'll be ripping that this
> afternoon.
One of the bonus tracks on this release is the full-length version of
"Even Less".  When I processed that file, I found that the end was
padded with zeroes -- LOTS of zeroes.  In all, I think there was about
30MB of padding at the end of the file... so much so that I'm not
convinced I ripped it properly, and will be trying that again!  Anyway,
the conversion utility doesn't expect that much null data, and spends a
very long time time picking through it looking for a DTS frame.  So I
added an option to let me tell it to stop looking after so many bytes,
and just call it a day.  (And when one hits control-C to break out of
the utility when it's flailing around in the padding, it now tells you
how far it got, so you have a value to use for truncation.)

I also added a *--version* option to tell you what you're running
(either you're running what it says, or you have 0.1 if it complains
about the option!).

I'm now going to try ripping that bonus track again, in case
SmartRipper or something else had a problem with the size of the file. 
If anybody has experience with ripping single DVD audio tracks of that
size (supposedly longer than 14 minutes), please let me know.


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