Multi-Channel/Stream support?

Hi all,

I'd like to know how well Speex handles multiple input streams. More specifically, if i have 4 streams that are playing at "the same time", how well does the CODEC handle switching from one stream to the next to process the audio.

The reason i ask is this....My project up until now uses the MELP CODEC which didn't specifically have the ability to handle multiple streams. I'd give the CODEC a packet to process from Stream #1, then i'd give it a packet from Stream #2 and just keep cycling through my different input streams. The problem was that MELP used a lot of global variables for state information (basically to bookmark the audio information of that packet) and the end result was a lot of clicking since it's saved bookmarks were not correct since i changed streams on it. I had to remove every single global and move them to a class that i wrote so that each stream would have it's own set of globals to bookmark audio in.

If speex is not subject to this type of problem that would make me very happy. If it works similar to MELP and i have to remove all of the globals myself again, i'd like to know in advance.

Thanks in advance,
Chris
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