Re: lmc bugginess

Michael Hall wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 16:27, Ed Sweetman wrote:
> 
>>It does not scan the entire 
>>file (except in the current ogg decoder it does because of the method we 
>>open the file)  Scanning a file on a modern system is extremely fast, on 
>>the order of less than a second for files upwards of 10MB, but this is 
>>not the case if you're actually doing something at the time or using a 
>>slow processor.
> 
> 
> FWIW, I have all of my oggs (+mp3s) stored on a not very fast fileserver
> with slow (5400RPM) disks to keep temperatures down. This is accessed
> over a 100Mbit network however (although I'm looking at WiFi for access
> from my living room). I would try to get an estimate of how long its
> taking to scan an ogg, but the build changes have decided only to
> compile about three files...
> 
> In terms of functionality, I very rarely use seeking; never care how
> long a song has left to play; and definitely place the responsiveness of
> opening the file higher than either of the above. This of course may
> have no bearing on the design ;-)

I think seeking can be sufficiently implimented by the decoder guessing 
how many bytes are needed to be seeked by simply making the slider be a 
percentage of filesize and not file time length. Since vbr files are 
asymetric in bitsizes of a given second of audio plus encoded data 
overhead, this wont be completely accurate but you cant get byte 
accurate anyway with the percentages, we'd have to have a variable 
length slider for that and it would have to get pretty big to offer the 
necessary resolution.  I think this is sufficient for our purposes 
considering the "time length" method wasn't really accurate anyway added 
to the fact that it broke interface design.

> 
>>Robert Hart wrote:
>>
>>>Although we all know that time is an illusion! right? Speaking of which,
>>>I make it lunch time. ;-)
> 
> 
> lol... dinner time for me, which definitely isn't an illusion!

The list seems to be lagged to hell as i posted my reply Hours before 
any of my email addresses recieved it from the list.  so yea, time is an 
illusion, especially with email responsiveness.



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