[vorbis-dev] Packet questions

[Ralph Giles]

On Fri, Mar 19, 2004 at 11:32:37AM -0300, Adriano Almeida wrote:

> Sorry the basic questions but first of all, what are the packet used afterall?? seems that only pages are important

The codec only deals with packets. For storage or transmission in the ogg bitstream format, 
packets are segmented and packed into pages. So there's two separate layers of parsing: 
file->pages->packets and packets->audio.

> if i have a segment table like the one listed above means that i have 4 packets and each value is its size???
> 
> 199 195 200 207

Correct.

 -r
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