OK, I'm pretty satisfied with the code for 0.10 so I've been updating the documentation. The new comparison page is done and checked in. It has the latest numbers for flac 0.10 and also shorten 3.2 (was 2.3a). The compression ratios are about the same but the encoder is much faster. flac -1 beats shorten on size and speed. flac -3 is much better than shorten at the same speed, and the default mode of flac is down to 13.5 minutes from 18.5. Thanks to Miroslav for contributing several assembly routines. I think at this point, unless you are a windows-only person that doesn't mind closed source, FLAC should be the lossless format of choice. I should have the distro done this week (one more tweak and it will be independent of gnumake). Thanks to everyone who contributed to the make system. Josh __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Josh Coalson wrote:> > OK, I'm pretty satisfied with the code for 0.10 so I've been > updating the documentation. The new comparison page is done > and checked in. It has the latest numbers for flac 0.10 and > also shorten 3.2 (was 2.3a). The compression ratios are about > the same but the encoder is much faster. flac -1 beats > shorten on size and speed. flac -3 is much better than shorten > at the same speed, and the default mode of flac is down to 13.5 > minutes from 18.5. Thanks to Miroslav for contributing several > assembly routines. > > I think at this point, unless you are a windows-only person that > doesn't mind closed source, FLAC should be the lossless format > of choice. > > I should have the distro done this week (one more tweak and it > will be independent of gnumake). Thanks to everyone who > contributed to the make system. > > Josh >Sounds awesome! I'll admit I haven't tried it lately. I will give it a go sometime again :) Nice work ya'll. Lates.. Josh Green