Chris Double schrieb:
Given that codecs are often highly optimized for forward playback the cost in memory can be excessive to go the other way. Could there be a possibility to say 'reverse playback not supported'?
This may be needed anyway, given that with streaming media you can't reverse playback, even if the codec would allow it easily (which is not the case for MPEG, VC-1, Theora, Dirac, <your favorite codec here>).
An interesting case would also be how to handle playback speeds smaller than "1x" in the streaming case, given that you cannot possibly have an infinite buffer of input data. Streaming mostly forces a playback speed of "+1x" in all cases.
Maik
