Re: to be effcient or not to be efficient

Enrico Weigelt wrote:

> * 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.

But I don't think any of them do or will support backward playback of 
MP3 frames...