FLAC 1.5 Finally Delivers Multi-Threaded Encoding

https://www.phoronix.com/news/FLAC-1.5-Released

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WolfLink@sh.itjust.works · 25 pts · 1y (1 reply)

It was already practically instantaneous compared to video encoding, but neat anyway.

lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network · 0 pts · 1y

Maybe that's cause FLAC encodes audio instead.

melroy@kbin.melroy.org · 19 pts · 1y (4 replies)

Thank you so much! I mean I have a threadripper with 48 threads.

ashley@lemmy.ca · 29 pts · 1y (3 replies)

Yeah I’m sure they’ve got a lot of flac over this

miss_demeanour@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 25 pts · 1y (1 reply)

Yeah, but it's their lossless.

Ferk@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 1y

They didn't have the right frame of reference.

melroy@kbin.melroy.org · 3 pts · 1y

yes, I definitely got a lot of flair 😜

AnotherDirtyAnglo@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1y

Is it anything like multi-threaded xz -- in that you're trading encoding speed for size?