Re: Determining the usefulness of compression

2002-12-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, Am 20:44 2002-12-04 -0800 hat Vineet Kumar geschrieben: >> filename suffixes (never bother with gz, tgz, bz2, zip, jpg, jpeg, gif, z, >> Z, mpg, mpeg, avi, wav, mov) > >Huh? some AVIs and all WAVs are uncompressed, and will benefit >enormously from compression. The theory here is corr

Re: Determining the usefulness of compression

2002-12-05 Thread Craig Dickson
Pigeon wrote: > I think the point re WAVs is that gzip and its kin don't compress them > very well so you waste a lot of cpu and get something that if you're > lucky is 90% of the original file size. I think there's a program > called 'flac' that will compress them to around 60-70% of original > s

Re: Determining the usefulness of compression

2002-12-05 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:44:28PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Charlie Reiman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021204 18:26]: > > filename suffixes (never bother with gz, tgz, bz2, zip, jpg, jpeg, gif, z, > > Z, mpg, mpeg, avi, wav, mov) > > Huh? some AVIs and all WAVs are uncompressed, and will benefi

RE: Determining the usefulness of compression

2002-12-05 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: Vineet Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 8:44 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Determining the usefulness of compression > > > * Charlie Reiman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021204 18:26]: >

Re: Determining the usefulness of compression

2002-12-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:44:28PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > Huh? some AVIs and all WAVs are uncompressed, and will benefit > enormously from compression. The theory here is correct, though: > don't try to compress already-compressed data; it won't work. Well, depends on what you mean by uncom

Re: Determining the usefulness of compression

2002-12-05 Thread Rob VanFleet
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:44:28PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: > * Charlie Reiman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021204 18:26]: [...] Thanks for the help guys. I'll go with the filtype/filesize comparisons suggested. Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Determining the usefulness of compression

2002-12-04 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Charlie Reiman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021204 18:26]: > > -Original Message- > > From: Rob VanFleet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 5:40 PM > > > > I am writing a script that will compress certain files passed to it > > (well, that's a part of the script) an

RE: Determining the usefulness of compression

2002-12-04 Thread Charlie Reiman
> -Original Message- > From: Rob VanFleet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 5:40 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Determining the usefulness of compression > > > I am writing a script that will compress certain files passed to it > (well, that's a part o