FLAC 1.3.1 Improves Decoding Efficiency, Some Faster Encoding Too

[pal666]

Can flac encoding be sped up with OpenCL?? Would be nice to have.

who does so much flac encoding ?

[Maurits]

Can flac encoding be sped up with OpenCL?? Would be nice to have.

It can be done. FLACCL is a FLAC encoder that uses OpenCL to speed up encoding. http://www.cuetools.net/wiki/FLACCL It was originally based on CUDA but later switched to OpenCL for greater compatibility and performance.

However, the speed increases in FLAC 1.3.1 are quite impressive and make the new 1.3.1 reference encoder actually faster than FLACCL, especially on more recent CPUs. Try it out for yourself: http://downloads.xiph.org/releases/flac/

[Bucic]

Took them long enough though.

ID3v2.4+ will probably not make it during this decade though...