Hi Robert,
Thanks for your insightful reply. I am trying to write
a LMC for my docoder. Please give your inputs on how do
I should go about it.. What are the things to concentrate?
What are the the Xing decoder specifics?. I need your help
in this regard.
take care
Srinu
>===== Original Message From [EMAIL PROTECTED] =====
>On 15 Dec, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> What does 'Xing TOC' signify?. I also want to
>> know why there is a header called XingHeader. Is it same
>> as MPEG header?. Can anybody through some light on
>> it?.
>
>The Xing header is only used for VBR files. To seek to a percent, say
>50%, in a constant bitrate file all the player needs to do is to seek to
>50% in the actual MP3 file, find the next frame and continue playing
>from there. All the frames are roughly the same size making seeking
>easy.
>
>With variable bitrate files, let's use an example: Assume you have a
>file that is silence for 1 minute, and music for 1 minute. The VBR
>encoder will encode the song at a low bitrate for the first minute and
>then a higher bitrate for the second minute. The player cannot just
>randomly seek to 50% and expect to find the spot where the music starts.
>
>The Xing header is designed to overcome just that. It provides the
>player with 100 seek points in the file. So if the player wants to seek
>to 50%, it would look into the 50th slot in the Xing header, and from
>the data in the slot the player could figure out where to seek to.
>
>If that doesn't cover it, let me know what I can elaborate on.
>
>
>--ruaok Freezerburn! All else is only icing. -- Soul Coughing
>
>Robert Kaye -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://moon.eorbit.net/~robert
>
>
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