[gcompris-devel] Several PNG images are uncompressed and takes too much space, please fix this in new release

[Bruno Coudoin]

Le vendredi 09 mai 2008 à 19:15 +0300, Yavor Doganov a écrit :
> Mantas Kriaučiūnas wrote:
> > 
> > Also you can convert .wav files from boards/sounds and
> > boards/sounds/melody into .ogg, this also would save more than 1 MB
> 
> I (well, actually my kids) run GCompris on a Pentium MMX and Pentium
> II, as well as an OldWorld Mac under GNU/Linux.  Encoding the sound
> files in Ogg Vorbis will cause significant slowdown.
> 
> I suspect that many users are in this situation, particularly in the
> poor countries.

Whatever the power you have, decoding ogg vorbis induces a startup delay
that makes it inappropriate for sound effects.

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