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Most power efficient CODEC for the COWON X5L

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TexasRockbox:
Hello,

I looked around and didn't find a wiki or post that really addressed this question.  I found the CODEC efficiency wiki but the x5(L) wasn't listed.

Does anyone have a rough idea if Vorbis (-q8), FLAC (level 8) or AAC (256k CBR & 320k CBR) is most efficient for Rockbox?  That is, least power hungry and better battery life.

Thank you!

saratoga:
http://www.rockbox.org/wiki/CodecPerformanceComparison#Motorola_Coldfire_SCF5250

Looks like MP3 is probably your best bet.  FLAC is faster but on a hard disk player all those spin ups to rebuffer are going to hurt battery life a lot.

TexasRockbox:
Thank you very much! I was at that page and searched for Cowon instead of iAudio. Found the D2 but didn't find  the X5. Duh! Thanks again.

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