On 7/28/05, Pat Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In practice, you would have to balance the increased network traffic and
> CPU needed to handle twice as much TCP/IP traffic, error processing,
> retransmissions, etc. against the smaller data used sending flac.
> This probably also clanks more memory, making the memory controller
> work harder, etc.

I notice a distinct drop in the visualizer framerate when using
onboard FLAC decoding, so there's a pretty big CPU hit. (But I agree
that you need a lot of "possibly" and "theoretically" disclaimers
before translating that into lower audio quality).

- Jacob
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