Subject: Re: mp3 seeking
From: Andy Lo A Foe (andy_AT_alsa-project.org)
Date: ke loka 27 1999 - 10:02:22 EDT
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999 est_AT_hyperreal.org wrote:
> First, I must thank you for alsaplayer since I'm using an adaptation
> of your adaptation of the mpg123 code in the next major release of
> oolaboola. I'm encapsulating it in a separate process (called
> mp3serv) to get re-entrancy. I may move to the xing decoder but the
> process interface will remain the same.
Very interesting. I'm thinking about a similar solution for doing
reentrancy with plugins that don't support it, something like a proxy
plugin interface with IPC and shared memory. Where can I get the latest
version of oolaboola?
> My understanding was that it *may* take more than 3 frames of priming
> to resynchronize. One of the xing/freemap people got me the logic but
> I haven't implemented it yet.
I'm using 3 right now. You need a bit more for lower bitrates it seems.
I've never really looked into the encoding algorithm so... :)
> Another issue is how to find a given frame in the first place. Given
> that each frame may have an extra byte of padding, a multiplication is
> (audibly!) unreliable. I've implemented a table-of-contents mechanism
> to deal with this.
Yes, if you want 100% correct seeking the best thing you can do is to
store the frame start positions while decoding. It is a bit slow though.
Is that what you're doing? (for VBR encoded files I don't see any other
(simple) method to support seeking BTW)...
Regs,
Andy
-- AlsaPlayer, http://www.alsa-project.org/~andy/
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