Re: to be effcient or not to be efficient

Enrico Weigelt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.media-api
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* Tuukka Toivonen <[email protected]> [2004-01-07 11:29:02 +0200]:

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> I mostly agree with you arguments but would like to add yet another:
> - Robustness on data corruption/missing data.
> A file should be playable even if it's missing data from the end or
> beginning. And it's not just about data corruption, e.g. one would like to
> play a file while still downloading it and the end missing. Or like I do, I
> split big AVIs into multiple CDs but mplayer can not play anything except
> the first part directly (unless I've missed some switch).

Isnt this a job for the demux ?
Well, if the demux can handle this (requires appropriate container formats),
the rest of the application should make no trouble.


cu
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