Re: compression level

Josh Coalson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.compression.flac.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- Harry Sack <[email protected]> wrote:
> hi
> 
> I was wondering how many difference in % of cpu load (on same cpu)
> exists
> between compression level 1 and 8 while decoding. Also same question
> for encoding.

depends on the cpu.  for some examples see
http://flac.sourceforge.net/comparison.html

> Is the difference in % of cpu load while decoding/encoding the reason
> different compression levels were created or another reason?

no, decoding speed is fairly even, they are mainly for encoding.



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