--- Gordon Gidluck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > For those of you who don't know, I now have an application on pocket > pc using flac. Live2496 does realtime encoding while recording. > Live2496 typically is used to record a digital source using the Core > Sound PDAudio device. Links are now on the main flac page if you are > interested in learning more. > > I have a question. We have run across a 24-bit file that when we > record it, flac level zero compression only results in about a 2% > reduction in the file size. I use flac level zero because we don't > have the computing power required for (higher level flac) realtime > encoding on pocket pc's and windows CE. > > What is it about a file that would cause such a poor encoding rate?
hard to tell without a sample. or you could decode and reencode the sample on another machine with -1 .. -8 switches and post the compresses sizes, that could also give a clue. if there's no way to do -1 on the pocketpc (which is equivalent to -0 -M and will help with stereo), there are a couple of tweaks you can try that shouldn't affect the encoding time but might help for hi-res recording. you could try increasing the blocksize with -b. -0 defaults to -b 1152, try 2304 and 4608. also -0 defaults to -r 2,2; you could try other values like 1,1 3,3 4,4 ... increasing -r tends to work better with larger blocksizes. what kind of CPU is in it? Josh __________________________________ Yahoo! Mail - PC Magazine Editors' Choice 2005 http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev