[vorbis-dev] Question Re: Bitrate Peeling

[Anthony Arcieri]

On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Monty wrote:

> > You helped me out quite a bit the other day, but I just wanted to make sure 
> > I understand something.  The "ideal" way to do bit rate peeling is to have 
> > the encoder set the file up to be conducive to the peeling process, and the 
> > streamer would be the device that actually does the peeling.  Am I correct 
> > in assuming, then, that the decoder would think that the file it is 
> > receiving was (more or less) simply encoded at the lower bit rate, or does 
> > the decoder also have to know that it's dealing with a peeled stream?
> 
> The decoder is totally unaware that anything extra is going on.
> 
> Monty

Just curious, could this work in reverse?  That is to say, could the
sender send a sort of bare-bones bitstream using a reliable protocol with
high-overhead (i.e. TCP) and send additional component bitstreams using
an unreliable low-overhead protocol (i.e. UDP) and have the whole
re-assembled on the receiving side?  I know this makes for a complicated
transfer but I'm sure most of us would rather have diminished quality
rather than a complete loss of signal.

Tony Arcieri

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