Re: VQ and Huffman codebooks creation
Paul Martin <[email protected]>
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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. -- Paul Martin <[email protected]>