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Subject: Re: FLASH: How does Flash play back MP3
From: Neal Cabage
Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 20:36:22 +0100

Does this mean that Director's Shockwave audio compression codec is somehow
based upon, or related to MP3?

Neal



----- Original Message -----
From: John Dowdell <jdowdellatmacromedia [dot] com>
To: <flasheratchinwag [dot] com>
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2000 8:17 PM
Subject: Re: FLASH: How does Flash play back MP3


> 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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