Flac - Jan 2008 - compression level

hi

I was wondering how many difference in % of cpu load (on same cpu) exists
between compression level 1 and 8 while decoding. Also same question for
encoding.
Is the difference in % of cpu load while decoding/encoding the reason
different compression levels were created or another reason?

thx

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--- Harry Sack <tranzedude@gmail.com> wrote:
> hi
> 
> I was wondering how many difference in % of cpu load (on same cpu)
> exists
> between compression level 1 and 8 while decoding. Also same question
> for encoding.
depends on the cpu.  for some examples see
http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html
> Is the difference in % of cpu load while decoding/encoding the reason
> different compression levels were created or another reason?
no, decoding speed is fairly even, they are mainly for encoding.



     
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