1. A method for coding a signal using hybrid coding, the method comprising: reducing redundancy by block based prediction in order to establish a prediction error signal, transforming the prediction error signal into a transformed signal, deciding whether to encode the transformed signal, or to encode the prediction error signal in the spatial domain, encoding the transformed signal in the frequency domain in response to deciding to encode the transformed signal, and encoding the prediction error signal in the spatial domain in response to deciding encode the prediction error signal.