[vorbis] Bzip2 & Ogg Vorbis

[fungus]

Christian.Buchner wrote:
> 
> Just wondering. Has anyone considered using arithmetic coding for vorbis?
> I've previously done some work with context adaptiver arithmetic coding on a
> video codec and I found this to be an interesting thing. Even though this
> technology is a minefield of IBM patents once you start to integerize and
> optimize the algorithms. ;)
> 

I think the whole point of ogg was to *avoid* patents...

<p>(and arithmetic coding isn't _that_ much better than
  a good Huffman algorithm)

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