Re: to be effcient or not to be efficient

Artem Baguinski wrote:

> when i build interactive multimedia setups, i use frame based formats
> like Motion JPEG [every frame is separate JPEG picture] or even PNG if i
> need Alpha layer in material. but my favorite media engine still does
> all these MPEG influenced tricks if i just wanna shuffle the frames or
> play the stream backwards. 

Oh, BTW. Playing a stream backward is one of my requirements. I'm not 
sure there are many APIs that can allow that. Unless you do a timecode 
trick (reverse it) on the source material.