[vorbis-dev] rehuff

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 03:33:07PM -0800, OmegaDan wrote:
> May I ask a question? 

You can try.
 
> Why is the vorbis code generating non-optimal huffman
> codes in the first palce?   I seem to recall there is
> a greedy algorithim that always produces an optimal
> huffman tree? ...

Because the codebooks are optimum for the training set, not nessassarly your
stream. The codebooks can't be made optimum in single pass encoding, but we
(segher's tool) can go back in a second pass and optimize them very quickly.

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