[xiph-rtp] Updated Vorbis and new Theora I-D's

[Ralph Giles]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 01:56:48AM +0100, Tor-Einar Jarnbjo wrote:

> As Ralph already pointed out, is the packet type already defined by the 
> first octet in the packet data. What I mean is, that I don't see any 
> reason for including this in the payload header as well. Alternatively 
> use the two bit VDT field in the payload header, but then skip the first 
> octet of the packet data, as the packet type is already defined.

You can't simply skip the first octet, there is other important data in 
the other bits. You could skip it for header packets, but you can only 
skip the LSb for audio packets. In any case it sounds like consensus is 
the VDT field should just be removed entirely.

 -r