Re: [Dev-C++] New to the list, and a quick question

[Per W. <pw...@ia...>]

Note that sound is very hard to compress, and for most applications it
isn't meaningful to spend any time to compress/decompress it.

The only situations where compression is important is when used in flash
memory of small hand-held devices, or if transmitted over a
bandwidth-limited media, such as using a GPRS phone.

Cmpiling audio or images into an application is quite often done, and
works very well. By having the information in the exe file - or even
better in one or more dll files - the OS will be able to throw away the
information in case of a mermory contention. If the information is read in
from a data file (read in, instead of memory-mapped), the OS must swap out
the information so that it can restore the information later without
letting the application know about it. Information stored in resource
files, the exe file or a dll file does not need to be swapped, since the
OS specifically knows how to load the information on demand directly
from the original source.

/Per W

On Thu, 11 Jan 2007, Pedro Perez wrote:

> Hello;
>
>    Is not advisable to include a complete audio file in your program, maybe if is a small file you can include it as a resource file.
>
>    I think the best you can do  is to pack it in a file in some format you desire (*.dat), unpack it and use it as desire. (Tip: You can apply a compress format leaving the .dat extension and then encrypt it, that helps too).
>
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