[vorbis] Bzip2 & Ogg Vorbis

[Olaf van der Spek]

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From: "Jack Moffitt" <jack at xiph.org>
To: <vorbis at xiph.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2002 12:38 AM
Subject: Re: [vorbis] Bzip2 & Ogg Vorbis

<p>> > If so, why is there no option to use bzip2 with Ogg Vorbis by default?
>
> Are you saying that you never seek in Ogg?

No. But in certain cases I don't and in those cases it would be interesting
to have the extra compression.

> Because I don't believe you
> can do random seeking in bzip2 files without a full decompress.  Not to

I don't know, but I assume you need full decompression.

> mention you'd be really adding some extra cpu usage for very little
> gain.

CPU time is cheap compared to 'download' time.

>
> jack.
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