[mad-dev] mad performance question

[Gabriel Bouvigne]

> Of course you can do better than that. You can jump to any PCM sample
position
> you like; you just have to find the right frame containing the position
you
> want to jump to.
>
> There is a caveat. In order to properly decode samples in one frame, it is
> often necessary to decode the previous frame so that the Layer III IMDCT
> overlap outputs are correct and the synthesis filterbank is in phase,
since
> both carry state across frames.

Do you mean that right now, mad only try decoding at the seek offset without
trying to get teh previous data necessary for decoding (like previous frames
when main_data_begin>0)?

I think that some people would perhaps need such a behaviour. (but most
end-users like me don't care about it).

Regards,

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