[Theora-dev] Error in Spec of theora ident header

Ralph Giles giles at xiph.org
Mon Dec 20 02:32:20 PST 2004


On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 05:30:32PM +0800, illiminable wrote:

> While trying to find a bug in my encoder, i came across an error in the spec
> where it defines the structure of the ident header... the spec defines 100
> extra bits which aren't actually in the headers... NSBS, NMBS and NBS don't
> appear in a 3 2 0 header... the actual structure is as follows

The table you're referring to is confusing. It's actually the output of
the described info header decoding proceedure, *not* the actual contents
of the header packet. The extra fields you noticed can all be computed
from other information in the packet.

 -r


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