On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:02:52PM -0500, Gordon Gidluck wrote: > > You might experiment with encoding levels to see how much space you > can save. From my experience, the default level 5 provides reasonable > compression. The higher the level, the longer it takes to encode.
I did some experimentation with this myself a while ago. I found that flac -l 12 -b 4608 -m -r 4 $wavfyle -o $tmpfyle provided useful additional compression with not too much additional CPU time vs. the default. I did not save my specific time and compression ratio data, alas. My notes from when i did the comparison say: this is like "flac -6" quality but -l bumped from 8 to 12. -7 and -8 use extremely CPU-expensive -e option that doesn't buy much, but the -l 12 from "-8" is cheap and helpful. I don't remember what -l and -e do :) this was on an old redhat 9 box, pentium 4 CPU. YMMV. danno -- dan pritts [EMAIL PROTECTED] 734-929-9770 _______________________________________________ Flac-dev mailing list Flac-dev@xiph.org http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac-dev
