[vorbis] One important thing

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Thu Jul 6 23:46:33 PDT 2000



> > Vorbis adds no delay or padding to the beginning or end of a sample.  Actually,
> > libvorbis right now is missing a feature to make sure the end of a track is not
> > padded.  I just recently realized I'd missed that (it's an oversight in our
> > code, not in the format spec).
> 
> Won't there be any "zero-crossing" problem with this? Like, when a contenious
> signal is cut and if there's no zero crossing there, a "click" or "pop" occurs.

Yes, but it's up to the playback/editing code to deal with this (it's not 
difficult).
Basically, you want to have the control to decide what to do with the raw 
signal, not have the format mandate it to you.

Monty

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