Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: vorbis-tools

I use mediatomb (the official Ubuntu package) as a UPnP server.  My
music files are stored as flacs, which my player can't read so I use
mediatomb's transcoding feature which calls ogg123 -d wav -f xxxx
some_music.flac

mediatomb sets up xxxx as a FIFO and reads the transcoded music from
that.  It used to work fine on Hardy but now I've upgraded to Intrepid
the music will cut out after 15 seconds.

If I transcode the file directly using ogg123 (e.g. ogg123 -d wav -f
some_music.wav some_music.flac it works fine.  If however I try

mkfifo /tmp/test

ogg123 -d wav -d /tmp/test some_music.flac

and then use e.g. vlc in another terminal to read the transcoded data
from /tmp/test

ogg123 will hang until vlc starts reading from the FIFO then fail with
"error. buffer write failed".  So mediatomb is not part of the problem.

I note that ogg123 changed from 0.11.1 to 0.12.0 as part of the upgrade
to Intrepid.  For now I've switched to transcoding using mplayer (which
is slower to start up) as a workaround.  (See
https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=2980305&forum_id=440751
)

Thanks,
James.

** Affects: vorbis-tools (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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ogg123 buffer write failed writing to FIFO
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/331807
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