23 Apr
2009
23 Apr
'09
5:42 p.m.
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On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 12:27:47PM +0100, rui.carneiro@portugalmail.net wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 5:47 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
Note that some formats might require to seek to some point in the file [1]
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I hadn't thought on that before but I think you are right. The only question here is writing data to memory or hd.
Taking into account what Steffen Kaiser noted in this thread, a good old temp file (and boxing the subprocess within robust ulimits!) seems to be adequate. I can well imagine some crappy converter running amok :-/
Regards
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