Ivo, Harry is asking about CPU usage of the DEcoder, not the ENcoder. And I believe FLAC is designed to use as little CPU as possible for decoding, thereby encouraging hardware manufacturers to include FLAC support. Encoding, however, is another matter, always done on a computer, and requiring a good measure of CPU. Greg M. --- Ivo Emanuel Gon?alves <justivo@gmail.com> wrote:> The amount of CPU the FLAC encoder uses is dependant > on how much > compression you will use. The less compression you > need, the less CPU > power that will be used. > > Of course, the whole point of FLAC is to get as much > compression as > possible without losing any audio fidelity. > > I don't know of any site that compares CPU power > usage between FLAC > and MP3. I have seen a few threads on HA comparing > CPU usage between > FLAC and other lossless formats, though. > _______________________________________________ > Flac mailing list > Flac@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac >
On 7/24/07, Greg M. <contrabassboy@yahoo.com> wrote:> Ivo, Harry is asking about CPU usage of the DEcoder, > not the ENcoder.Sorry, my bad. I believe that FLAC's decoding is somewhat faster than most other lossless formats, as FLAC is a much less complex format.
2007/7/24, Ivo Emanuel Gon?alves <justivo@gmail.com>:> > On 7/24/07, Greg M. <contrabassboy@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Ivo, Harry is asking about CPU usage of the DEcoder, > > not the ENcoder. > > Sorry, my bad. > > I believe that FLAC's decoding is somewhat faster than most other > lossless formats, as FLAC is a much less complex format.Maybe somebody knows some comparison tables with some measured values like the ones available for encoding times? (so now I'm looking for the decoding CPU power loads) thx _______________________________________________> Flac mailing list > Flac@xiph.org > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac >-------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac/attachments/20070725/e7dd88d0/attachment.htm