Ian Clarke wrote:
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On 19 May 2006, at 10:17, Matthew Toseland wrote:
On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:10:03AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote:
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Note that compressing anything that has already been compressed, such
as most image, audio, or video formats, is pointless.
True, but packing them may be far from pointless. Also, gzip usually
manages to squeeze a percent or two out of big video files.
That is surprising as any compression algorithm worth its salt should
result in uncompressible files, but I will take your word for it.
Ian.
But video files (and audio) cannot afford to compress anything that will take *time* to
decompress, where as 7zip or other compression utils can happily do that.
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