Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/30/07 07:11

"Eeyore" wrote ...
> Richard Crowley wrote:
>
>> "Eeyore" wrote ...
>> > There is a BIG difference however. A true CODEC operates
>> > in real time. Zipping and unzipping files is however not a real
>> > time process.
>> >
>> > Wikipedia also takes the view that codecs must be real time.
>> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codec
>> > "A codec is a device or program capable of performing encoding
>> > and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. "
>>
>> Sorry, I can't see the words "real time" anywhere in your quote
>> (or on the whole page, for that matter). Can you help us find them?
>
> A *signal* or *data stream* are real-time concepts.
>
> In comparison zipping and unzipping files is very much NOT real-time.

Then we must agree to disagree. I take it you are not
a comptuer programmer? I've never before heard the
notion that a "data stream" had any temporal implication.

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