[theora] Indexing Ogg files for faster seeking

Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell at gmail.com
Thu Jan 21 20:41:23 PST 2010


On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 11:38 PM, Bernard Jungen
<bjung50169 at euphonynet.be> wrote:
> Entropy coding *may* be more efficient for time deltas, which *may* have
> significant redundancy, and IMO deflate is a good easy test for this. A static
> coder may also be sufficient (and simpler than adaptive) for our data. There's
> compression code at http://www.cbloom.com/

I already contacted cpearce off list and got data from him. I found
optimal entropy coding the diffs to be ~24% of the size he is getting.

Just becomes an issue of coming up with an acceptably simplistic implementation.


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