Re: to be effcient or not to be efficient

On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:53:39AM +0100, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> 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.

you can do that with simpler apis like quicktime4linux or avifile.
that's why i'm for keeping the common standard api simple. the only
problem with others is that they are for limited number of formats /
input sources. 

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