working on avcodec interface

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diff --git a/rotord/rotord.cpp b/rotord/rotord.cpp
index f0bcc0d..734e159 100755
--- a/rotord/rotord.cpp
+++ b/rotord/rotord.cpp
@@ -29,6 +29,20 @@ save a movie
 
 how do we deal with frames in libavcodec - can we request a frame by number
 how do we deal with resolution
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+
+avcodec class
+what does it have to do?
+
+-open files (could be video, audio, or both)
+-process files i.e. thumbnail the audio or do audio analysis, make a no-keyframe proxy of a movie
+-retrieve video frames (with caching- what's the best way to approach this)
+
+just for a quick think through: signal data is trivial: 1 floating point number per frame.
+to store a whole uncompressed video track for a 3 minute @ 720.25p in RGB \= 12GB
+caching the whole thing isn't a goer
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+
 */
 
 RotorRequestHandler::RotorRequestHandler(const std::string& format): _format(format){