[Flac] FLAC: recommended compression

[Murat Ceylan]

Hi there,

5 is the optimum compression level in terms of encoding speed and
the compression ratio. From my experience, -8 results in flac files
that are <1% smaller than -5, so I usually use -5, it's way faster.
However the recent update has greatly increased the speed of -8.

Cheers,
Murat


--- Harry Sack <tranzedude at gmail.com> :

> Hi,
> 
> Why is -5 the recommended compression for the FLAC encoder? So my question
> is: why is a lower compression recommended over a higher compression (-8)?
> What factors make -5 the "recommended" one, even if the compression is lower
> then the -8 option?
> 
> I hope somebody can explain this
> 
> thanks in advance!