One of the minor annoyances I've had regarding the switch to Linux is the older FLAC versions that are out there. Debian/Ubuntu is stuck at 1.1.2, so I'm missing out on the compression improvements in 1.1.3 and the dramatic encoding speed increase in 1.1.4.
It's not a matter of simply trying to get the new codec, there are so many packages which depend on it, I don't know if you'd have to upgrade them all or if you could get away with upgrading just the codec and still have everything else work: http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keywords=flac&searchon=names&subword=1&version=all&release=all I understand Debian updates packages -very slowly- so it may be a year or more before we see even 1.1.3, let alone 1.1.4, and by then there will surely be a new FLAC out. Good thing I have a Core 2 Duo coming that will smash through 1.1.2 encodes with brute force, but it would be nice to get the "free" performance upgrade with 1.1.4 and with the extra compression in 1.1.3 that I can't get regardless of what processor I use... -- Mark Lanctot ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Lanctot's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2071 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=34794 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
