[Flac] FLAC: general question

[Greg M.]

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 good measure of CPU.

Greg M.

--- Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <justivo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 site that compares CPU power
> usage between FLAC
> and MP3.  I have seen a few threads on HA comparing
> CPU usage between
> FLAC and other lossless formats, though.
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