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

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Mon Jan 20 18:11:35 PST 2003



On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 09:05:43PM -0500, Corey Miller wrote:
> Hmmm... would it be all that difficult to implement some sort of system 
> to find redundancy of blocks.

Short answer: "Fuck, yes."  That redundancy lets you seek.

> I'm sure many files have blocks that are audibly 
> similar enough so you could use the same data for all of them.

Tried it ten years ago.  Short answer is still "no, not in this decade".  

Monty
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