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mirekrusin
on Oct 13, 2019
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Exactly, so you arrived at the same conclusion - fixed distance so you can safely pick up stream at arbitrary position.
kstenerud
on Oct 13, 2019
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The difference is that the distance limits would be inherent to the codec itself, rather than taking up extra space in the data stream.
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