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flashsvenc: replace bitstream description by a link to the specification

An official specification now exists and it is both more detailed and
easier to understand than the incomplete notes available here.

Diego Biurrun authored on 2011/07/16 02:45:17
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  * Flash Screen Video encoder
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  * @author Alex Beregszaszi
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  * @author Benjamin Larsson
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+ *
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+ * A description of the bitstream format for Flash Screen Video version 1/2
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+ * is part of the SWF File Format Specification (version 10), which can be
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+ * downloaded from http://www.adobe.com/devnet/swf.html.
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  */
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-/* Bitstream description
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- * The picture is divided into blocks that are zlib-compressed.
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- *
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- * The decoder is fed complete frames, the frameheader contains:
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- *  4 bits of block width
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- * 12 bits of frame width
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- *  4 bits of block height
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- * 12 bits of frame height
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- *
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- * Directly after the header are the compressed blocks. The blocks
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- * have their compressed size represented with 16 bits in the beginning.
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- * If the size = 0 then the block is unchanged from the previous frame.
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- * All blocks are decompressed until the buffer is consumed.
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- *
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+/*
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  * Encoding ideas: A basic encoder would just use a fixed block size.
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  * Block sizes can be multiples of 16, from 16 to 256. The blocks don't
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  * have to be quadratic. A brute force search with a set of different