On Monday 25 January 2010 01:01:03 Ian Clarke wrote: > I'm trying to upload a?1.25 GiB?AVI recording of a lecture, and its > been compressing for over an hour. Why is Freenet trying to compress > files that are already compressed, and why does it take so long? > > We need more content in Freenet, its rather discouraging when you try > to upload something and it uses 100% of your CPU for several hours > trying to compress something that is probably incompressible.
Why do we keep having this conversation every five minutes? Seriously, we last discussed this a month ago, on what is a relatively low traffic list nowadays! And the answer is still the same: Most compressed formats (including most media formats) will gain a few percent by further compression with gzip, bz2 or lzma. And that few percent will usually make the overall insert time shorter, and it will always make the overall request time shorter. Maybe we just shouldn't tell the user? :| Oh and evanbd does have a point too - FEC encoding is CPU intensive too, and can take some time. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 835 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20100125/b2613498/attachment.pgp>
