Posted by Richard Crowley on 11/30/07 09:48

"Don Pearce" <nospam@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:4756da8c.255310484@news.plus.net...
> On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 23:11:02 -0800, "Richard Crowley"
> <rcrowley@xp7rt.net> wrote:
>
>>"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.
>
> But it does, otherwise it would simply be data. The word stream
> implies that the data is moving past you, and you must deal with it on
> the fly.

I take it that you aren't a programmer, either.

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