From: Phrogz <gavin@...>
Date: 2007-05-18T04:15:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Streams of bits

On May 17, 6:52 am, Richard Fairhurst <rich...@systemed.net> wrote:
> I'm writing a bit of Ruby to output SWF files.

Nice!

> SWF's opcodes and arguments are variable-length streams of bits. They're
> packed in direct succession - i.e. not usually padded to byte
> boundaries.

Not that I've used either, but see:
BitStruct: http://raa.ruby-lang.org/project/bit-struct/
BitStructEx: http://bit-struct-ex.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl