[Vorbis] Re: ogg123 and Vorbis piped to stdin

[Michael Smith]

> how does this work when encoding live? (i.e. when the whole file isn't
> available before you start encoding) I thought the point of the headers
> was that they contain a codebook which has been generated from the
> specific frequency distribution of the file that's been encoded, but if
> you're streaming a live source, this must work differently.

In the reference encoder, the codebooks do not depend on the actual
data being encoded (they depend on the encoder version, and what
settings you're using to encode).

Though it would be possible to write an encoder that does what you
suggest, I don't think anyone has done so.

Mike