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 23:11:40 +0100]:

<snip>
> >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 ;)
hah, then its no more mp3, but perhaps pcm or alaw ...
in my eyes a codec transform from one encoding to another, not 
necessarily from/to pcm. there are audio devices out there, which 
directly support mp3 - those should also be supported someday.


cu
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