Gerald B. Cox wrote:
I've notice Slimserver has changed from oggdec to sox. From what I can gather this was done to fix an outstanding issue, which I have not experienced. I'm not really familiar with sox but I ran across this statement in the documentation:
"SoX can decode all types of Ogg Vorbis files, but can only encode at 128 kbps. Decoding is somewhat CPU intensive and encoding is very CPU intensive."
Does anyone know what the performance/quality implications are for ogg users as
a result of this change? Are all the files we playback going to be of a 128
kbps quaility even if we originally encoded at higher levels? What is the
performance hit of all this?
We only use sox for decoding, not for encoding, so you shouldn't see a quality change. I've not noticed a substantial performance change on my Windows 1GHz laptop - both oggdec and sox use the same decoding library, so I suspect that they are equivalent. There's an additional resampling cost for audio that's under 44.1KHz, but that's balanced out by actually being able to listen to it at regular speed. :-)
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