Vorbis dev - Jul 2007 - Re: [Advocacy] Flash and native support for Theora and Vorbis.

On 7/21/07, xiphmont@xiph.org <xiphmont@xiph.org>
wrote:
> I would assume Greg had a reason for asking the question where and how he
did.
You will find that most people have a reason to do what they do -- it
doesn't mean it's a good one.


On 7/21/07, Ian Malone <ibmalone@gmail.com> wrote:
> Would they [Adobe] find it
> more acceptable to provide lower level APIs to components
> such as the MDCT allowing codecs built in Actionscript to
> operate more efficiently?
How would this work?  I reckon the performance of a scriptting
language cannot compare with a high-level programming language.

Ivo Emanuel Gon?alves wrote:
> On 7/21/07, Ian Malone <ibmalone@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Would they [Adobe] find it
>> more acceptable to provide lower level APIs to components
>> such as the MDCT allowing codecs built in Actionscript to
>> operate more efficiently?
> 
> How would this work?  I reckon the performance of a scriptting
> language cannot compare with a high-level programming language.
I believe that was his point. I believe [i]MDCT is one of the
biggest resource hogs in Vorbis {en|de}coding?
They are presumably doing their MP3/whatever support natively
(as opposed to scripting language), so if they exposed the API,
the performance of custom decode scripts, such as Tor-Einar's(?),
could be drastically improved, maybe even up to a usable level.

Worth a try anyway. (Someone else trying, anyway.)


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