Re: to be effcient or not to be efficient

Enrico Weigelt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.multimedia.media-api
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* Steve Lhomme <[email protected]> [2004-01-14 22:11:35 +0100]:

<snip>
> Actually I had only audio in mind for that one. In this case it can only 
> be handled between the reader and the codec. The codec gives samples and 
> they are copied into another buffer but backward.
> For video the problem is P and B frames which come in the opposite 
> order. It could be tricky but still require the reader to "work" with 
> the codec.

well, we have to mention that media streams can always be considered
as a sequence of chunks, which each represent a number of frames/samples
(i.g. they're conceptionally the same). audio encodings may also be 
non-sample-based (think of mp3).


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