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Those .blr extensions in the examples are making me doubt: the result is still conformant and playable ogg Vorbis/Opus, right?
by BoingBoomTschak 2mo ago
Those .blr extensions in the examples are making me doubt: the result is still conformant and playable ogg Vorbis/Opus, right?
- sinnet3000 2mo agoFrom what I can see, it's more like a specialized ZIP-like compressor for Vorbis/Opus files. You archive them on blr, and decompress them back to the original format.
- ncruces 2mo agoKinda like what Dropbox Lepton did for JPEG back then. https://github.com/dropbox/lepton https://github.com/dropbox/lepton
- BoingBoomTschak 2mo agoAh, it's basically a PAQ context.
- embedding-shape 2mo agoSimpler: it's basically ZIP but specific to one format.
- bigC5560 2mo agoI just tested this out for myself and I was unable to play the .blr file in VLC or using ffplay. It is not recognized as anything by ffprobe either. So it seems like you need to decompress it to play it in a standard player unfortunately.
- RicoElectrico 2mo agoThere is a long history of compressors that replace the entropy coding layer of a codec with something else entirely. This is exactly it.