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ogg and the granulepos
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an ogg streams contains pages with a serial number and a granule pos. The granulepos
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is a number that is codec specific and denotes the 'position' of the last packet
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in that page.
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ogg has therefore no notion about time, it only knows about bytes and granule positions.
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The granule position is just a number, it can contain gaps or can just be any random
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number.
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theora and the granulepos
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the granulepos in theora consists of the framenumber of the last keyframe shifted some
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amount of bits plus the number of p/b-frames.
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This means that given a framenumber or a timestamp one cannot generate the granulepos
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for that frame. eg frame 10 could have several valid granulepos values depending on if
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the last keyframe was on frame 5 or 0. Given a granulepos we can, however, create a
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unique correct timestamp and a framenumber.
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in a raw theroa stream we use the granulepos as the offset field.
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vorbis and granulepos
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the granulepos in vorbis happens to be the same as the sample counter. conversion to and
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from granulepos is therefore easy.
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in a raw vorbis stream we use the granulepos as the offset field.
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What can ogg do?
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An ogg demuxer can read pages and get the granuleposition from it. It can ask the decoder
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elements to convert a granulepos to time.
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An ogg demuxer can also get the granulepos of the first and the last page of a stream to
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get the start and end timestamp of that stream. It can also get the length in bytes of
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the stream (when the peer is seekable, that is).
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An ogg demuxer is therefore basically able to seek to any byte position and timestamp.
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When asked to seek to a given granulepos, the ogg demuxer should always convert the
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value to a timestamp using the peer decoder element conversion function. It can then
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binary search the file to eventually end up on the page with the given granule pos or
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a granulepos with the same timestamp.
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Seeking in ogg currently
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When seeking in an ogg, the decoders can choose to forward the seek event as a
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granulepos or a timestamp to the ogg demuxer.
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In the case of a granulepos, the ogg demuxer will seek back to the beginning of
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the stream and skip pages until it finds one with the requested timestamp.
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In the case of a timestamp, the ogg demuxer also seeks back to the beginning of
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the stream. For each page it reads, it asks the decoder element to convert the
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granulepos back to a timestamp. The ogg demuxer keeps on skipping pages until the
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page has a timestamp bigger or equal to the requested one.
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It is therefore important that the decoder elements in vorbis can convert a granulepos
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into a timestamp or never seek on timestamp on the oggdemuxer.
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The default format on the oggdemuxer source pads is currently defined as a the
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granulepos of the packets, it is also the value of the OFFSET field in the GstBuffer.
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Oggmux
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The oggmuxer uses the offset fields to fill in the granulepos in the pages.
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TODO
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- use the OFFSET field in the GstBuffer to store/read the granulepos as
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opposed to the OFFSET_END field.
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- Seeking should be implemented with a binary search.
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