FLAC is a cross-platform codec, but when it comes to Windows, one has a pretty wide range of compiles. Some are more optimized than others.
I first got the idea for this benchmark when I stumbled upon a native 64-bit FLAC executable…
Archive for the tag 'codecs'
Dec 19 2008
GNOME Audio Player Shootout Revisited
It’s been close to two years since I wrote GNOME Audio Player Shootout, a visual and textual comparison of some the best available audio players for the GNOME desktop.
As is usually the case in the world of free software, a…
Jul 10 2007
cdrtfe: a powerful cdrtools frontend
Previously, I reviewed InfraRecorder, a relatively young project that seeks to add a bit of spit and polish to the venerable cdrtools command line programs. At the time, noted that while the interface was lovely, there were a few flaws, notably the…
Apr 20 2007
Various software releases
Since there have been a slew of minor (and just a few major) software releases in the past week, I’ve decided to amalgamate them all into a single post. There are a fair number, so I’ve hidden them beneath the…
Mar 26 2007
Infra Recorder: the best Windows cdrtools frontend
The state of Win32 burning programs
The proprietary choices for optical disc burning on Windows are pretty obvious: at the fore, there’s Roxio’s offering, EZ Media Creator, and Nero’s offering, Nero Burning Rom. Having used Roxio’s v5 program long, long ago…
Feb 14 2007
FLAC 1.1.4
A new version of FLAC—Free Lossless Audio Encoder—has been released, a mere three months after its last major release.
The main improvements in this release are speed optimizations at all levels, but most importantly, encoding at -8 is twice as fast as it…
Aug 26 2006
Eric S. Raymond failed Philosophy 101
That is, the part about the end not justifying the means.
In case you’ve missed the recent furor over proprietary modules in GNU/Linux distributions, here’s the deal: because of the rise of popular titles available for Linux gaming, and because of…