[xiph-rtp] Suggestion: Define a static set of codebooks for Vorbis streaming

Ralph Giles giles at xiph.org
Thu Oct 21 03:11:43 PDT 2004


On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 02:32:47PM +0800, illiminable wrote:

> Though i guess one issue is... can anyone just have their own codebook 
> server... or should xiph provide the master list of known codec id's... ie 
> is the codec id a universal id, or just one unique to the stream provider. 
> There's advantages and disadvantages to each method... probably for the 
> client side, one authoratative source of codecs run by xiph is better... 
> but from the distributor side, that's not so great, as they need to submit 
> their codebooks before they can be used (though that's probably not too big 
> a deal... as it's not like peopel are coming up with new codebooks elft 
> right and centre).... and also it means that one entity bears the burden of 
> distributing all the codebooks.

This is more or less the url+md5 scheme.

 -r


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