Re: [Flac-dev] Re: multiple core support

2007-09-06 Thread Avuton Olrich
On 9/6/07, Harry Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it's really not complicated I think: only api changes to write on any Please get started writing a patch, immediately. -- avuton -- Anyone who quotes me in their sig is an idiot. -- Rusty Russell. ___

[Flac-dev] Re: multiple core support

2007-09-06 Thread Harry Sack
it's really not complicated I think: only api changes to write on any position in the file if that's not possible already with existing function. I'm not sure if decoding can have multi-core support: you need an api for writing pcm files in different parts then and this is maybe more difficult to

[Flac-dev] Re: multiple core support

2007-09-06 Thread Brian Willoughby
Hmm, You're actually correct, when you put it that way. Because the audio blocks are coded independently, you could speed things by having the encoder (or decoder) do a little up-front processing on the metadata, then use the overall settings to divide the file into sections and run the