[vorbis] Bzip2 & Ogg Vorbis

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Mon Dec 23 21:08:01 PST 2002



On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 03:45:42PM +0000, Shawn Riley wrote:
> John wrote
> >> wrote a rough, hackerware tool to recalculate the optimal codes on
> >> an 
> >> existing file, and I think they got results similar to yours
> >> (though maybe 
> >> bzip2 does a bit better). 
> >
> HJ wrote-
> >Segher Bossenkool (sp?) did, but Segher's been kinda quiet recently.
> > Search the archives for 'rehuff', or thereabouts.  Work has
> >presumably stopped or gone back underground for further tweakage
> >amidst other Dark Arts.  :D
> 
> 
> Last I remember, he said it broke the decoders because of a bug in libvorbis or libogg. (?!) Something to do with seeking.

That was a bug in setting granule position.  I'm not sure if it's
still there.  It's not some fundamental drawback of rehuff-- just a
bug.

Monty

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