Perhaps a more important question is how much electricity is required to
decode FLAC, and how much heat is generated - for embedded CPUs of course.
FLAC might not become popular for portable players if it shortens their
battery life significantly.
While there is the problem that .flacs take u
Harry,
Another thing to consider is the balance between CPU efficiency and
disk speed. On some of my systems, decoding a FLAC file to AIFF (or
WAV) uses 100% of the CPU. That's because the drive is faster than
the CPU, so the CPU is constantly working. Moving to a 4-processor
system, I
Harry,
Keep in mind that the processor load will be different for every
processor model. PowerPC G4, G5, and then all the implementations of
x86. Processor load does not depend upon clock speed - all that
clock speed determines is how fast the operation can be done, and
particularly whe
2007/7/24, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On 7/24/07, Greg M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 le
On 7/24/07, Greg M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
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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
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 sit
hi FLAC list!
I have a general question about the FLAC decoder. Is it true the FLAC
decoder requires less CPU power then a MP3 decoder? And if yes, is there
somebody who can give me a comparison e.g. FLAC decoder uses 50% less CPU
power then a MP3 decoder or is this difference only minimal?
thx
