Re: [slim] Which format puts heaviest demand on SB?

2006-02-06 Thread Mark Lanctot
Pat answered most of your other questions, but I guess you should qualify: load on the system in terms of bandwidth required or load on the Squeezebox CPU? For bandwidth, it would be WAV: completely uncompressed, full bitrate, 1440 kbps. Note that FLAC was designed to be very easy to decode,

Re: [slim] Which format puts heaviest demand on SB?

2006-02-06 Thread Pat Farrell
joek wrote: > I want to be able to stress test and am curious as to which of the audio > formats would provide a heavy load on the SB3? > Would it be FLAC, since the SB3 would have to uncompress a large audio > stream before playing? What do you mean by stress? The CPU runs all the time. If it is

[slim] Which format puts heaviest demand on SB?

2006-02-06 Thread joek
I want to be able to stress test and am curious as to which of the audio formats would provide a heavy load on the SB3? Would it be FLAC, since the SB3 would have to uncompress a large audio stream before playing? Thanks! -- joek ---