[Flac] flac -- exhaustive model search vs. -A <*>?

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At 05:47 AM 6/22/2012, Linda Walsh wrote:
>Martin Leese wrote:
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>>Linda Walsh <mailto:flac at tlinx.org><flac at tlinx.org> wrote:
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>>>     That brings up another question then... What is 'hi' (v. low?)...
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>>Zero, or close to zero, is low.  12 is high.
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>They mention 32 as a top end, so maybe 12 isn't that slow?
>I'm got encode times around 30-45 seconds on a 2 CPU machine,
>which has fallen to about 10 secs/album on my current server @2.7Ghz
>using ~1080% cpu...

This is what I use and it produces smaller (compatible) FLAC files 
then just plain -8 and you don't need -m.

flac -8 -f -A tukey(0.25) -A gauss(0.1875) -V -b 4096 file.wav

Jon