[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH] Function to parse Dirac sequence header

[Kostya]

On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 07:07:44PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 05:10:46PM +0200, Kostya wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 03:07:47PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 07:57:43AM +0200, Kostya wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:35:59PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 02:42:13PM +0200, Kostya wrote:
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> > 
> > Since I have long standing interest in general data compression
> > (well, since 1999 is quite long for me) and I've never seen "exponential-Golomb"
> > codes mentioned in any book or paper on data compression covering
> > more exotic codes, and the only mentions of exp-Golomb are related
> > to H.264 (and it's missing in older H.264 draft). All this makes
> > me feel this name was invented by them.
> 
> even if true, i must say "exponential golomb" makes sense to me while
> 3 dozen different codes identified just by the author names do not.

Well, I hoped to find out the truth.
As for the name, I agree that "exponential" makes sence but IMO the second
part of it is misleading.

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