On: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 21:15:10 +0100 (MET),
Guenther Sohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hallo Diemo,
>
> > Hi all, this is a very interesting thread because it pops up at a time
> > where we were asking ourselves the same question.
We _only_ need to add a mid-layer interface to mad. Providing open,
seek, read, close.
> OK. I'll investigate now how to use mad with just reading the header and
> how many bytes to skip to the next frame. this should make seek as fast as
> it could be used in an application.
GSMP does this. GSMP/{include,src}/MADHelper.{hh,cc}.
The code has only some minor issues where the data is incorrect - and
needs a rewrite. (It is the results of a few days try'n error ...)
> > I wonder if the special Xing frame allows sample-precise seek, as it
> > only records 100 base points.
>
> What is xing ? does the points from 0 to 100 correspond to the percentage of
> the whole file ?
>
> does every mp3 file have xing frames ?
No. It is a extension.
> appending such lookuptable info to the mp3 file was a good idea, but
> you could not rely on that, because not every mp3 file has, and i
> want to have something which is 100% working.
I do not touch this info, too.
> rds guenther
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