>
> This is probably a newbie question but please humour me. I am trying to
> build an encoder and decoder from scratch.
>
> In the huffman tables provided by the ISO 11172-3 book. What are the x and
> y values supposed to represent? Maybe someone can put in simples terms the
> usage of x, y and hlen. I understand huffman coding and decoding theory but
> not how it is applied in MP3.
>
> Bob
They are the quantized MDCT coefficients. in the "bigvalues" region,
these coefficient are encoded in pairs. x is the first value of the pair,
y is the second. hlen is the number of bits used to huffman encode (x,y).
Mark
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