Abstract: In example embodiments, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program product are provided. The apparatus comprises at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory including computer program code; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform determine a processing order of building blocks to encode or decode a media item; and determine a number of processing steps required to encode or decode the media item; wherein the processing order of building blocks and the number of processing steps are determined based on a content of the media item by using a guided probability model based on a neural network.