[Tremor] Need help skipping comment header

[Andy Grundman]

On Oct 29, 2008, at 6:51 PM, xiphmont at xiph.org wrote:

>> Hi Monty,
>>
>> Would you be able to assist in finding a way to hack around the  
>> comment
>> header?  I've tried a few times and wasn't able to figure it out.
>
> I would-- I'm just less effective when being split in a few different
> directions.  I've actually been thinking about the right way to
> represent this in the API.  I'm more concerned with the added feature
> being genuinely useful than being an easy change-- it seems like there
> might be greater utility to being able to speculatively buffer or not
> buffer as an application needs (for example, a memory-constrained
> audio player that might want to play back just the audio tracks of
> videos...  music video and music in one! :-)  That would mean not
> buffering whole pages just to checksum and discard.

Thanks.  I think such a feature would be very useful (critical, even)  
to anyone with a memory-constrained decoder.  Anyone running Tremor on  
a low-memory device should be sure to test files with large comments  
(i.e. artwork).