[vorbis-dev] Success

[Michael Smith]

At 05:48 PM 8/9/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Do in part because of advice offered here, we were able to incorporate the
>an ogg-vorbis decoder into our software.  The encode stays with another
>piece, and this has kept software size down considerably.  I was wondering
>why the encoding was so large?  And for my own benefit, are there some books
>I could study to learn the mathematical background (or anything else I would
>need to completely understand the vorbis compression architecture) of
>vorbis?  Thanks, Chris

Most of the encoder size comes from the large static codebooks included.
It'd be possible to make a significantly smaller encoder if you wanted to
limit it to, for example, only one bitrate/mode (just by not including the
other modes and associated codebooks). 

Michael

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