Vorbis dev - Jun 2009 - Placing multiple sound clips in a single file

Hello,

I strongly recall mention of people storing multiple small sound clips in 
a single ogg vorbis file and then referencing them within the file, rather 
than having multiple small files.  However, Google has failed to turn up 
anything posted about this.

My friend is thinking of using this technique to cut down on the space the 
sounds take up in his games client.  He is interested in information on 
techniques for generating such files and then referencing clips in them, 
and any code that might be available.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers,
Geoff.

> I strongly recall mention of people storing multiple small sound clips in
> a single ogg vorbis file and then referencing them within the file, rather
> than having multiple small files.  However, Google has failed to turn up
Might have been that it's quite likely that the headers will be the same
for similar encode parameters (sampling rate, channels, etc), so headers
can be cut off and kept separately only once, and each sound file can
be trimmed of its headers. Decoding a file would then involve feeding
the shared headers, followed by the headerless file.

Now, that might not be what you read about, but it's a possible way.

Geoff Shang wrote:
> I strongly recall mention of people storing multiple small sound clips in 
> a single ogg vorbis file and then referencing them within the file, rather 
> than having multiple small files.  However, Google has failed to turn up 
> anything posted about this.
The previous mailing list thread is here:

    http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/vorbis/2009-March/027330.html

Erik
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