[vorbis-dev] interlaced / fractal encoding

[Michael Smith]

At 07:26 PM 3/30/01 -0800, you wrote:
>
>Can anyone tell me if it is possible to encode music in an
>"interlaced" format.. perhaps I should explain what I mean by this.  Say
>I'm getting 1k/sec off some guy's modem on opennap.  It would be sweet if
>I could listen to the song as it is downloading but obviously the quality
>is gunna suck.  So suppose the song was encoded in this interlaced
>fashion, I would be able to download the first half of the file and listen
>to it at a low quality but the more bits get added to the end the better
>the quality becomes.  Just like when you get them awefully annoying gif's
>that take four refreshes to get to any decent level of quality, I could
>listen to the song 4 times and have it get better in quality each time.
>

Vorbis allows bitrate peeling, which could be used to implement something
like this, if one really wanted. I doubt it'll ever be done, though. 

Michael

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