[vorbis-dev] UDP streaming vorbis

[Michael Smith]

On Thursday 11 September 2003 04:19, Eric Ross wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2003, Beni Cherniavsky wrote:
> > Vorbis requires the first packets, not only to nkow it's Vorbis but
> > also because they contain a lot of info necessary for decoding the
> > rest.  All streaming schemes include some way to recieve the headers
> > when you connect and the data from the point you connected.
>
> Is any way to cache these headers ? I mean, if im going to transmit always
> at some bitrate, always at same quality and so on, can a push into the
> vorbis decoder a fake buffer (premade with real data) and then start
> receiving and decoding the real data  ?

Yes, there is. Given the same encoder settings and the same encoder, the 
headers will be the same.

Note, however, that your player will no longer be a vorbis player - be sure to 
make this clear.

Mike

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