Thread: Can the n800 play FLAC audio format?
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2009-02-24 , 11:55
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Originally Posted by ssam View Post
my experience on a 600MHz via x86 CPU is that flac takes much less CPU power to decode (at least a factor of 2) than ogg vorbis. That was using gstreamer codecs.

there may be variations between x86 and arm, but i can't imagine the n800 having any trouble playing flac if it can play vorbis in software. if the decoding can be pushed to the DSP then it would be even better.
I can but agree. That's why I first went to flac.

But when I switch between ogg and flac, still I'd say there's something I like more about the ogg at the moment. It may all be placebo of course, since the overall handling and userexperience of using oggs works better.