[vorbis-dev] Re: Data smearing

[WEBMaster ASGA]

"When you jump into the middle of an MP3 stream you may need to have a
number of previous frames available in order to properly decode the
current frame. That's not terrible if you can limit or predict how many
frames you need to back up to in order to get a clean decode of your
desired frame. But with MP3 there is no way to know how many frames you
need -- its a trial and error situation. "

In the worst case, in mp3, you need 9 frames before beeing able to decode a
frame.

Regards,

Gabriel Bouvigne
www.mp3tech.org

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