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A question about flac

Compaired to a 320kbps mp3, how much processing power does it take to decode a flac file compressed at the highest compression setting?

A question about flac

Reply #1 –
As far as i know the compression level of flac doesn't affect the decoding time.
I tried to test how much faster a flac will be, but my hard disk is too slow.

MP3 has got a decoding speed about 70-80x realtime on my system, and flac above 120x. Flac will be even faster if i would have a better drive.

You can test the decoding speed on your own system by using foobar2000.
Mit freundlichen Grüßen aus Österreich, Matthias

A question about flac

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flac file compressed at the highest compression setting?


decoding is not affected, but the encoding is real slow
If time factor is not a problem, you can take your time encode with "8"

A question about flac

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Decoding time *is* affected. See link above, please..
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OK, OK... it is affected, but the difference is, for pretty much all purposes, negligible.