[Vorbis-dev] unofficial tags

[xiphmont at xiph.org]

On 8/9/07, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> wrote:

> > -looping: I don't think any lossy compression would deal with this too well,
> > but it's not that bad with ogg. Now is it technically possible to -not-
> > compress frames that'd be around the loop points, so that the decoded result
> > would still loop perfectly?
> >
>
> Don't think this (forcing no compression) is possible in
> Vorbis, but if you were willing to hack at the encoder
> level you could probably lap the window function for
> the MDCT at the loop point.

Vorbisfile gives you a looping interface for playback.  That's what
the 'crosslap' functions are for.

Monty