Ian Clarke wrote: > -----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.
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. -- Hi! I am a .SIG virus! Copy me to your SIG so that I can spread! http://freedom.libsyn.com/ Voice of Freedom, Radical Podcast http://www.whengendarmesleeps.org/ When Gendarme Sleeps, Anarchy's Zine of Poetry ======================== "None of us are free until all of us are free." ~ Mihail Bakunin
