[vorbis] Ogg Vorbis files can be compressed ?!?

[Peter Harris]

Nescafe wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> I have a short .ogg with Vorbis stream @56kbps
> from a 44.1 16bits stereo sample, which weights
> exactly 135'781 bytes. Packed to ZIP, it goes
> down to 109'485 bytes, that's a 80% ratio !
> Even worse with latest RAR3 archive, with
> which the file size goes to 104'349 (76%).

Have you tried rehuff? This is a program that will recompute the huffman 
codebooks for better packing. Over long files, the default codebooks are 
usually fairly close to optimal. On short files, rehuff can usually get 
quite a few percent savings (and sometimes as much as you indicate 
ZIP/RAR gets).

Search the archives for the source code, or wait for the final release 
if you don't have a compiler.

Peter Harris

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