Re: FLASH: How does Flash play back MP3

[John Dowdell]

At 7:45 PM 4/30/0, Gorsky wrote:

> How does Flash decompress the MP3 and play it back?  Does it

> use a totally different set of codecs than the Mpegs?


I don't know which implementation of the MPEG spec you're comparing it to

(these various implementations are often extremely hardware-dependent!) but

Macromedia Flash uses the licensed Fraunhofer audio compressors for MPEG 2

Layer 3 that were first deployed by Macromedia Shockwave, and later used in

many of the "generic-MP3" files that started to subsequently appear.


jd





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