Re: MD: ATRAC & loseless compression techniques...

[Stainless Steel Rat]

* Anthony Lalande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  on Thu, 11 Jan 2001
| Does any loseless compression algorithm require the entire set of data for
| read access before it begins compression?

No.  In fact none do.  Conventional compression algorithms operate on
fixed-size blocks of data.  Real-time compression of an audio stream is
easilly possible with a bit of buffering.  The issue is not that but
compressing fast enough so that the buffer is not overrun.
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