Re: [Advocacy] Re: Ogg Vorbis bitrate peeling bounty on Launchpad

On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:45:32PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >A note to the masses looking to tackle this: It's very easy to do
> >peeling... badly.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> >Years ago, segher wrote a util that just chops off
> >packets to a smaller length as a bit of a joke.  Although, stricly
> >speaking, this was a valid peeler, the results were terrible :-)
> 
> The framework that that code used was not a joke.  The only
> thing that needs changing is the decision on how much to chop
> off per packet.  And that, of course, is the hard part ;-P

Well, you have a subtle sense of humor.  Eg, the 'integer decoder' of
yours from April 1 a few years back was priceless...

Monty