Re: flac default is -l8 (but says -l5)

--- Dat Head <[email protected]> wrote:

> $ ls -l a.wav
> -rw-r--r-- 1 rootboy None 30587804 Jan  7 23:00 a.wav
> 
> $ flac -v
> flac 1.2.1
> 
> $ type flac
> flac is hashed (/usr/bin/flac)
> 
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 DFBJ7M51 1.5.24(0.156/4/2) 2007-01-31 10:57 i686 Cygwin
> 
> $ flac -f a.wav
> a.wav: wrote 16323314 bytes, ratio=0.534
> 
> $ flac -l8 -f a.wav
> a.wav: wrote 16323314 bytes, ratio=0.534
> 
> $ flac -l5 -f a.wav
> a.wav: wrote 16398095 bytes, ratio=0.536
> 
> $ flac
> ...
> flac - Command-line FLAC encoder/decoder version 1.2.1
>   -# is -0 (fastest compression) to -8 (highest compression); -5 is
> the default

-l5 is different than -5

-l just sets the LPC order, which defaults to 8 with -5


> a side question is: -l8 is slower to encode but how about on decode?
> i notice
> on both my winblows (winamp) and linux (xmms) box if there are a
> few things going on other than sound playing that i'll hear small
> delay at
> track transition (but then if i go back to same transition again it
> goes away
> since file now in file cache i guess - so i wonder if a quick
> workaround would
> be to do a "head" on all the files you are going to play?)

there will be a *very* slight decode time increase from -l 5 to -l 8
but you might not even notice.  much less than the hard drive seek
between tracks which is probably what's causing it.

Josh



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