Re: VQ and Huffman codebooks creation

Paul Martin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.ogg.vorbis.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 12:37:54PM +0200, Petr Tomasek wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 11:21:02AM +0200, Jesús Díaz Vico wrote:
> > actually poses me a new question, of a more _philosophical_ nature. If
> > the codebooks are obtained in that way, why don't just say "I'm using
> > codebook N" instead of packing the whole codebook within the setup
> > header? I suppose...
> 
> Not just "people", but even the developers themselves: i.e. it allows for
> tuning the codebooks and maintaining a backwards-compatibility with
> previous decoders...

Also, it means that the decoder doesn't have to carry a (possibly large)
table of standard codebooks.

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Paul Martin <[email protected]>
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