[vorbis-dev] Xiph Magic

[Beni Cherniavsky]

Andrew MacLennan wrote on 2003-07-17:

> 	Actually having just read Beni's recent post, it's occurred to me
> I didn't phrase my question very well : I meant to question whether Vorbis
> packets are self-contained in the sense of being able to determine a
> *premature* end-of-packet condition - I'm reasonably sure they're not ?
> To be fair, I misread Tor-Einar's original comment : I understand that
> Vorbis packets *are* self-contained if they're guaranteed valid and
> uncorrupted.
>
"Valid and uncorrupted" in the strict sense of being complete.  There
is nothing invalid in complete packets according to the spec; you
might even get them directly from an encoder if it chooses to do so.
In fact I think that oggenc emits them in bitrate-managed mode (could
someone confirm this?).  So far for the "common case"...


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Beni Cherniavsky <cben at tx.technion.ac.il>

If I don't hack on it, who will?  And if I don't GPL it, what am I?
And if it itches, why not now?  [With apologies to Hilel ;]
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