#7309 closed feature request (wontfix)
OGG: Fix for codebook waste
| Reported by: | SF/puntloos | Owned by: | fingolfin |
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| Priority: | low | Component: | Audio |
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| Cc: | Game: |
Description
A detailed discussion thread about both issues is here:
http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php? thread_id=912776&forum_id=115756
In a nutshell:
--- Codebook waste: Every ogg file has a codebook of 4-12kbyte. On vorbis files of (say) 1 second of (say) 32kbps that would mean around 20% wasted space.
The way to fix this is to compile one huge source .wav file (or at least not one for every sample!) and encode this into one big vorbis file. After that all that's left is to implement some code to seek the right spot to play.
A useful side-effect is that people interested in the actual samples can just drag the resulting file into winamp and play.
--- Resampling issue: As I've come to understand it certain Lucasarts games use a strange frequency of 11111Hz instead of the usual 11025. When fed to vorbis, vorbis resamples and encodes, and appearantly vorbis isn't very good at resampling. 2 solutions present themselves:
1/ Use some other resampler before feeding the file to vorbis, Im sure there's opensource stuff out there. 2/ (my preferred solution). Just force/fake and write the temporary wav files as being 11025Hz. The result is that the samples will be played back sliiightly slower (0.7%) but unless this gives unfixable timing problems in the game I very strongly doubt anyone will notice. (or just make it optional, so the purists can choose to resample and lose a ton of quality :) )
Ticket imported from: #786569. Ticket imported from: feature-requests/125.
Change History (8)
comment:1 by , 21 years ago
| Priority: | normal → low |
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comment:2 by , 21 years ago
comment:3 by , 21 years ago
OK good to hear the system doesn't resample anymore.
As for the codebook thing, hmm thanks for allowing me the freedom to write a patch, though I think it's more likely I'll first take the freedom to learn japanese and become an astronaut. :(
comment:4 by , 21 years ago
| Summary: | Fix for codebook waste and resampling issues → OGG: Fix for codebook waste |
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comment:5 by , 21 years ago
One potential way to tackle the issue *might* be to first concat all the raw data, taking care of the *sample* (as opposed to byte) offsets/lengths of each sound. Then, we encode that single huge RAW file. Finally, seeking in that file would be done by using the VorbisFile methods which do PCM sample based seeking. The problems with that 1) New format means people will have to re-encode their files 2) The above scheme has the drawback that we get "gap" effects at the start of the sounds (because the previous sound is coming right before the current sound in the file, and the encoder will "interweave" them to a small degree... I lack the words to properly explain this in english ATM, but I think anybody familiar with the way MP3/Ogg work will understand what I mean)
comment:6 by , 18 years ago
I really think that it will not be worth efforts. How big will be size gain? 1%? 2%? I.e. 800KB out of 80MB for, say, DOTT CD? Or 7MB out of 365MB for FT?
Though as mentioned, it will requires significant rewriting of both tools and our sound playback routines.
Max?
comment:7 by , 18 years ago
| Owner: | set to |
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| Resolution: | → wontfix |
| Status: | new → closed |
comment:8 by , 5 years ago
| Component: | → Audio |
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No, LA games don't use 11111 khz. This is just a "wrong" number caused by the fact that the VOC format can't encode arbitrary frequency values, so you have to round your freq to the nearest available VOC freq value, which is 11111. The data is still 11025, and newer versions of extract support that appropriately. So that should cover your second question.
As for the "codebook waste": feel free to write & submit a patch :- ).