[vlc-devel] vlc support for optimized ogg files with recompressed huffman table

[Gilles Sabourin]

More informations from hydrogenaudio and doom9 forums :

http://www.hydrogenaudio.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=2933&hl=rehuff
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=30491

Le samedi 9 janvier 2010 16:58:03, Gilles Sabourin a écrit :
> Hello team,
> 
> I think there is something you can enhance, for an 1.0.5 windows :
> 
> A few years ago, I got an windows utility called "rehuff.exe" from vorbis
> site. This utility was designed to re-compress the huffman table of ogg
>  files, in order to get 3 percents shorter size files.
> 
> I tried one sample under windows : the file is played smoothly under
>  Windows Media Player. Under vlc 1.0.3, the time cursor jumps from 1s to
>  58s, as soon as it begins to play, and many times after, but it does not
>  crash.
> 
> Under Linux, latest kaffeine, amaroK and vlc (compiled from latest) are
> crashing when they are trying to play this sample.
> 
> I you are interested to have a look on this tools and the sample ogg file,
>  you can provide to me an url to upload the stuff to your server.
> 
> Unfortunately, you won't be able to get this utility from Internet anymore.
> Also I don't know about the author, and I read that he did not want to be
> bothered by requests about his tool anymore.
> 
> At least, you could have a look to enhance vlc player robustness.
> 
> Greetings,
> Gilles
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