[Vorbis-dev] libvorbis 1.2.2 RC1

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Tue Dec 16 12:40:46 PST 2008


> Pasting a block of lyrics into a file could add around 2K. Padding to 4K
> doesn't seem unreasonable, especially considering most Vorbis files will
> be several megabytes. Are there cases where the size would be a problem?

Streaming: headers are burst sent to the listener. Still might not be
that significant.

> I suppose adding lyrics isn't really an operation suited to mass tagging,
> so 256 bytes might be reasonable for most cases. However, even rewriting
> a single file is annoying if that file is large (e.g., it it's a movie).

FWIW, ffmpeg2theora stores its comments primarily on the video
stream (other encoders might differ though), so this patch would
have no effect on movies encoded with ffmpeg2theora.

> Maybe the amount of padding should be based on the filesize somehow,
> with no padding for very small files.

Sounds sensible for the default value.


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