[vorbis-dev] Given ONLY an ogg packet, can one be able to decode the packet to PCM?

[Michael Smith]

On Tuesday 13 April 2004 06:27, Kenji Chan wrote:
> Given ONLY an ogg packet, can one be able to decode the packet to PCM?
>
> And how ogg vorbis know the info of it (bitrate..etc) in order to decode
> it?

An ogg packet is just a generalised chunk of binary data - it has no meaning 
by itself. Do you mean a 'vorbis packet'? If so, the answer is no - vorbis 
requires the header packets (of which there are 3; the second is metadata and 
is not crucial) to allow decode.

Mike

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