<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Harry,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Keep in mind that the processor load will be different for every processor model. PowerPC G4, G5, and then all the implementations of x86. Processor load does not depend upon clock speed - all that clock speed determines is how fast the operation can be done, and particularly whether it can be done in real time. Back to your question: The CPU load will be determined by the efficiency of the instruction set for the processor running the program, as well as how well the compiler maps the C source to those instructions. Any comparison table you might find could be irrelevant if your processor model was not tested, and if the compiler options are changed when you build FLAC, then that might change the efficiency as well.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I point this out because FLAC is not always going to be "better" or "worse" than other formats. We're talking about several moving targets here, all of which influence each other.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Brian Willoughby</DIV><DIV>Sound Consulting</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 25, 2007, at 11:21, Harry Sack wrote:</DIV><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">2007/7/24, Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <<A href="mailto:justivo@gmail.com">justivo@gmail.com</A>>:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On 7/24/07, Greg M. <<A href="mailto:contrabassboy@yahoo.com">contrabassboy@yahoo.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> Ivo, Harry is asking about CPU usage of the DEcoder,<BR>> not the ENcoder.<BR><BR>Sorry, my bad.<BR><BR>I believe that FLAC's decoding is somewhat faster than most other <BR>lossless formats, as FLAC is a much less complex format.</BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR><BR>Maybe somebody knows some comparison tables with some measured values like the ones available for encoding times?<BR>(so now I'm looking for the decoding CPU power loads) <BR><BR>thx<BR></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR></DIV></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>