>From 'HA' (http://www.hydrogenaud.io/forums/index.php?showtopic=105754): > > FLAC decoding is something like 50 CPU cycles/sample. I doubt you can > load a WAV file from disk that quickly due to the high bitrate. > > > FLACs can play on a 486 at 66 MHz > The point is, the default compression level of FLAC can be decoded extremely quickly. There is no reason to think you will run into a processor which is too slow, not even in weak embedded systems or on other really basic hardware.
Besides, there's the other effect Julf already mentioned. WAV has a higher bitrate than FLAC so there's more IO load (certainly when it comes to moving data from non-volatile storage into RAM; perhaps when moving data from RAM into caches and registers as well). If our system is so extremely low-specced such that we run into bottlenecks, it's quite possible that WAV is more problematic due to its higher IO intensity. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ poing's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=63617 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=104227 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/audiophiles
