On 23 Jan 2013, at 02:53, Stefan Schreiber <st...@mail.telepac.pt> wrote:
> P.S.: FLAC was the first widely used codec for lossless compression, so here > the commercial competition has a problem. How so? FLAC has a different design objective than some of the commercial lossless codecs. FLAC was intended mostly for "rippers", i.e. people who want to encode a lot of CDs, and store them and play them back on computers, so a big emphasis was encoding speed. Other algorithms are designed for max. compression and are thus slower and use more CPU but use less space. Others are optimized for minimal CPU use during decompression, such as to be workable on low power CPUs in portable devices. FLAC is but a choice, and not always the best one, from a technical point of view, even though it's free. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 4853 bytes Desc: not available URL: <https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/private/sursound/attachments/20130123/9780edb4/attachment.bin> _______________________________________________ Sursound mailing list Sursound@music.vt.edu https://mail.music.vt.edu/mailman/listinfo/sursound
