[Vorbis-dev] libvorbis 1.2.2 RC1

[Michael Smith]

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:47 AM, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves
<justivo at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/16/08, Michael Smith <msmith at xiph.org> wrote:
>> Padding 256 bytes, for example, wouldn't be so obviously bad, if done
>> when the app requested it (not by default).
>
> Okay, 256 bytes is a far more realistic number, but why not use it by default?
>
> -Ivo
>

Unexpected changes in behaviour are not desirable in a stable API.

Also, most software probably _doesn't_ want to add padding (just like
most software doesn't add padding for id3 tags in mp3s).

Mike