Re: Misc Codec Questions....

Segher Boessenkool <[email protected]> Fri, 24 May 2002 00:06:47 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.ogg.tarkin.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> The author of this page has invented an alternative entropy-coder
> which has better performance than arithmetic coding in his tests.

That's very interesting, as arithmetic coding is provable optimal
(under some conditions, of course;  Huffman coding is optimal under its
own conditions as well, of course ;) )

I'll read this paper with great interest (and great scepticism).


Segher


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