Phil Leigh wrote: > Yes, the software stack might be so deep that the CPU struggles and the > systems slows to an unusable crawl. I say that's not lossy - it's > broken. The music will eventually stutter and stop.
Flac was designed to be asymmetric on the processing load for compression and decompression. You compress a given tune once, and play it back lots of times, so flac takes a lot longer to compress, and is fast to expand. It can be expanded real time on slow processors, such as the one in a SB2 > Finally, there is nothing "real-time" about any of this (unlike a CD > player). The entire process is asynchronous. Timing issues can only > begin to arise downstream of the SB (e.g jitter). That is why the gods made buffers. And the reality and impact of jitter is still open to argument. For them, go to the audiophiles section. > That is completely different to saying that > running too much software on the server PC might bring the system to > it's knees performance-wise. And if one checks the third party and unix forums, you will find that nearly any PC made in this century is fast enough to be a SqueezeCenter server. -- Pat Farrell http://www.pfarrell.com/ _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
