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...and even that is not trivial. so we can assume that those API changes will never come and the flac encoder will never have multiple core support? thx -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.xiph.org/pipermail/flac-dev/attachments/20070908/979f0b55/attachment.html

it actually is complicated. the libFLAC api is not suited to a multithreaded design because the i/o is stream-based, not file- based. flac(.exe) is the file-based wrapper around libFLAC that allows it to work on files. the way libFLAC buffers data is also impossible to parallelize without significantly changing the api. it would take a specialty file-based encoder using an independent frame