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This idea is so simple that I'm sure it must have been thought of before, and discarded, since AFAIK it's not used anywhere. I did a quick web search but that didn't turn up much, so I figured I'd put it up for discussion here anyway. How about using large-scale repetition in audio compression? I'm thinking of redundancy in repeated pieces of a song, ie a chorus.

Hi. I need to execute a function from within a GUI. This seems to be no problem but this function takes about 4 minutes to finish, which means the application doesn't react at all, while the function is running. Can I execute a function as a separate Thread, while keeping control(e.g. a reference) of it at the same time? If not, how do this with a class containing this function? thanks,

I was looking at the libvorbis 1.0 SRPM of Mandrakelinux, and it contained some patches which are not included in vorbis 1.1 svn. I'm attaching these patches here, because it could maybe be interesting to include these upstream. (libvorbis-1.1-aliasing.patch is actually a rediffed patch of Mandrakesoft's one for 1.0 against 1.1 svn). The author of these patches is Gwenole Beachesne,