In article <nih2quouobesergu3qtvmmithvvjskjfr2@4ax.com> , ABX 
<abx### [at] abxartpl>  wrote:

> Working on MPEG port I found useful to perform buffered reading: allocate
> buffer and read fixed number of bytes there. The problem appear when there is
> less bytes to read than specified.

If you need to do that it indicates a flaw in your reading code.  Every
(reasonable) fileformat contains sufficient information to determine how
much information is in the file, and you should just never read over the end
of a file.

    Thorsten

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