[xiph-rtp] Updated -04 Vorbis-RTP I-D

Ralph Giles giles at xiph.org
Wed Dec 15 21:12:00 PST 2004


On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:44:16AM +0000, Phil Kerr wrote:

> >First question: Why are you trying to get the packed codebooks? I think 
> >it's fairly unlikely that these will be interesting on their own. I would 
> >think what you'd be interested in is getting the entire codebook setup 
> >packet (which has the mode definitions, mappings, etc. as well as the 
> >codebooks themselves) - and since that's just an entire packet, you don't 
> >need a special API for it. Am I misunderstanding your needs here?
> >
> Nope.  It does look a lot easier to use the unpacked codebook.

I also think this is a terrible idea. In addition to the lack of 
specification Mike mentioned, it makes any rtp implementation dependent 
on libvorbis' setup header packing code. Just working with the packed 
header data straight out of the ogg stream is much simpler.

-r



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