Bug#762571: audacity: Hang when asked to open Ogg Theora file

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

[Martin Steghöfer]
> However, the problem isn't in audacity, but in libvorbis. The file
> importer calls libvorbis' function "ov_pcm_seek" with seek position
> 0 in order to start reading at a well-defined position. But
> libvorbis seems to have problems with seeking to 0 in certain files.

Aha.  I really hope this can be fixed in time for Jessie.  The freeze
is approaching fast!  Dear libvorbis maintainer, what is your view on
this issue?

> Maybe the changeset can be backported to the libvorbis versions
> currently in the repositories? Backporting it is trivial, at least
> to the packages of libvorbis-1.3.2 the patch applies without
> modifications (using only fuzz). I just tried it and indeed it fixed
> the problem with audacity.

Do you have a working patch you can append to this bug?

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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen