[Flac] I'm listening to FLAC on my ipod!

[Eric Wong]

Eric Wong <eric at petta-tech.com> wrote:
> Josh Coalson <xflac at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --- Eric Wong <eric at petta-tech.com> wrote:
> > > Just to let you guys know, I've been listening to FLAC (compression
> > > level 2 or lower) tunes on my 3rd generation ipod running ipodlinux
> > > (modified uCLinux) for the past few days.  No skips or slow-downs
> > > whatsoever using MPD to play music.
> > 
> > how loaded is the cpu with a -2 FLAC file?  also, how does the
> > battery life compare against regular ipod use?  not sure how
> > much would be due to FLAC vs. MP3/AAC and how much due to
> > ipodlinux vs. native ipod OS.
> 
> Not sure about CPU load, but I suspect not a whole lot.  I have -8
> playing comfortably (slows down a little during UI (what little UI I
> have) interaction if it's reading from disk at the same time).  I
> haven't been able to get plain-old telnet to it working the past week or
> so, but I can telnet into MPD.  I optimized a few functions a little in
> libFLAC and MPD in C and it was enough for now.  I'll post those to the
> -dev mailing list in a bit, but I haven't been able to get very far with
> ARM asm (though reading it has given me great insight on how to optimize
> my C).
> 
> Battery life: >= 2 hours, that's the longest I've left it unplugged and
> playing.  No idea compared to the Apple software, I've only used the
> Apple software it for a few minutes to make sure the hardware was
> working right when I got it.  I'll run a test this weekend and see how
> long it takes to drain.

I guess my battery is dying.  I only seem to get 2 hours +/- 15 minutes.
I only get that much in disk mode or idle, too.  I've never had power
management on my ipod, so it was probably plugged in and at full charge
for too long.

-- 
Eric Wong
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