Ivo, Harry is asking about CPU usage of the DEcoder, not the ENcoder. And I believe FLAC is designed to use as little CPU as possible for decoding, thereby encouraging hardware manufacturers to include FLAC support.
Encoding, however, is another matter, always done on a computer, and requiring a good measure of CPU. Greg M. --- Ivo Emanuel Gonçalves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The amount of CPU the FLAC encoder uses is dependant > on how much > compression you will use. The less compression you > need, the less CPU > power that will be used. > > Of course, the whole point of FLAC is to get as much > compression as > possible without losing any audio fidelity. > > I don't know of any site that compares CPU power > usage between FLAC > and MP3. I have seen a few threads on HA comparing > CPU usage between > FLAC and other lossless formats, though. > _______________________________________________ > Flac mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac > _______________________________________________ Flac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xiph.org/mailman/listinfo/flac
