oggz-validate(1)

💖 oggz-validate — the vibe check for your Ogg files 💖

okay so bestie, you know how a General Commands Manual page is like... the group chat of Unix docs? Well this one is oggz-validate(1) and it is literally the friend who reads your Ogg files and tells you if something's off. No cap. Let's get into it. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

oggz-validate — validate the Ogg framing of one or more files 🦋

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

oggz-validate  [-M num  | --max-errors num ]  [-p  | --prefix ]  [-s  |
--suffix ]  [-P  | --partial ] filename ...

oggz-validate [-h  | --help ]  [-v  | --version ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

oggz-validate validates the Ogg framing of one or more Ogg files. That's the whole assignment. It looks at the framing — not the codec, not the vibes of your audio, the framing — and it goes "hmm, girl, something's not right here." 💅

Here's the thing though: oggz-validate detects the following errors in Ogg framing, and honestly the list is giving detective energy:

• File contains no Ogg packets
• Packets out of order
• Packet belongs to unknown serialno
• Granulepos decreasing within track
• Multiple bos pages
• Multiple eos pages
• eos marked but no bos
• Missing eos packets
• eos marked on page with no completed packets
• Granulepos on page with no completed packets
• Theora video bos page after audio bos page
• Terminal header page has non-zero granulepos
• Terminal header page contains non-header packet
• Terminal header page contains non-header segment

oggz-validate exits with status 0 if all files are valid Ogg files, and with status 1 if one or more errors are found. So 0 is the slay, 1 is the 😭. That's your whole exit status story, periodt.

✨ OPTIONS ✨

oggz-validate accepts the following options:

💅 Error reporting options

• -M num, --max-errors num — Exit after the specified number of errors. A value of 0 specifies no maximum. (so 0 means "keep going, I can take it" 🔥)
• -p, --prefix — Treat input as the prefix of a stream; suppress warnings about missing end-of-stream markers. She's not gone, she just hasn't finished yet 🥺
• -s, --suffix — Treat input as the suffix of a stream; suppress warnings about missing beginning-of-stream markers on the first chain. The beginning is somewhere else, bestie, don't panic 🫶
• -P, --partial — Treat input as a the middle portion of a stream. Equivalent to both --prefix and --suffix. It's the middle child of flags and it contains multitudes 🌈

🎀 Miscellaneous options

• -h, --help — Display usage information and exit.
• -v, --version — Output version information and exit.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Conrad Parker April 3, 2005; — yes, the author line has a semicolon and we're keeping it exactly as-is because that's just the energy it has. Iconic. ✨

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

Copyright © 2005 CSIRO Australia

🌟 SEE ALSO 🌟

• oggz-sort(1)
• oggz-dump(1)
• oggz-info(1)

okay bestie that's the whole page, we ate and left no crumbs 🍓 this was the oggz-validate(1) manual page from the General Commands Manual, dated April 3, 2005 — go forth and validate, fr fr. 💖🦋✨