by MMan » Tue Sep 29, 2009 7:30 am
FLAC is a Lossless format, so compression levels in FLAC has nothing to do with quality, only file size. The only trade-off between the compression levels is the time to encode the file. There is no additioanl decoding time with higher compression levels. Having said that, you do start to get diminishing returns in the trade off between increased compression and time to encode at higher compressions levels. IMO, a setting of 5 or 6 is going to get you 90+% of the compression benefit with virtually no impact on encoding time.
FLAC is a Lossless format, so compression levels in FLAC has nothing to do with quality, only file size. The only trade-off between the compression levels is the time to [b][u]encode[/u][/b] the file. There is no additioanl decoding time with higher compression levels. Having said that, you do start to get diminishing returns in the trade off between increased compression and time to encode at higher compressions levels. IMO, a setting of 5 or 6 is going to get you 90+% of the compression benefit with virtually no impact on encoding time.