[vorbis-dev] New entropy coder

[Josh Coalson]

--- Yann Guidon <whygee at f-cpu.org> wrote:
> Lourens Veen wrote:
> >Arithmetic coders are not used in the current standard because of
> this.
> >
> i've been told by more informed people than me that there are some 
> patent-free
> and better algorithms than the classical IBM implementation.

maybe you are thinking of range coding?

Josh

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