On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Ian Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:
As a test, I attempted to upload a 1GB avi file through FProxy.  It
then proceeded to spend (at least) 20 minutes trying to compress it -
I say "at least" because I killed it before it was done.

Of course, attempting to compress an already compressed file is
completely fruitless.

What gives?

Ian.

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I believe the thinking was that bandwidth is the bottleneck so compressing would 
save time overall.  Uncheck the compress checkbox.
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