Re: to be effcient or not to be efficient

Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> * 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).

Believe me, after it's decoded MP3 is composed of samples ;)