-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 19 May 2006, at 10:17, Matthew Toseland wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:10:03AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (Darwin) iD8DBQFEbf8QQtgxRWSmsqwRAqbzAJ9Jc5K+qqKRgpUcKcsVC9yWvSG4rwCeJwPu 97ZoxetBsh69XQ1J/1kmTOc= =ACv+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
