On Monday 08 December 2003 13:57, Redeeman wrote: > due to the last 2 threads about ogg and mp3, i decided to make some > test, and they shows some extremely interresting things. > > i have used the following tools: tar, bz2, lame, oggenc > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/sound_test$ ls -lh > total 90.4M > -rw-r--r-- 1 redeeman redeeman 8.3M Dec 8 12:43 > the_hero-sterio-nominel-320kbps.mp3 > -rw-r--r-- 1 redeeman redeeman 28M Dec 8 12:26 the_hero.flac > -rw-r--r-- 1 redeeman redeeman 7.3M Dec 8 12:40 > the_hero-vbr-j-sterio-320kbps.mp3 > -rw-r--r-- 1 redeeman redeeman 6.4M Dec 8 12:48 > the_hero.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 redeeman redeeman 37M Dec 8 > 12:26 the_hero.wav -rw-r--r-- 1 redeeman redeeman 3.4M Dec 8 > 12:44 > the_hero-sterio-nominel-120kbps.mp3 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~/sound_test$ > > i must say i belive tar and bz2 is much more looseless than ogg and > mp3, and it takes SO little space up, its almost fantastic, look at > flac, 28mb, tar.bz2: 6.4mb. > this even shows that its better to bz2 them than to compress with > varible bitrate, joint sterio 320kbps mp3. the compressions time was > even smaller on the bz2, so i wonder if there is going to be a bz2 > plugin for xmms soon?
The problem is that bziped files are not seekable, ie one needs to unpack it to the point where it is listened. The keyframes, which are evenly distributed along the mpeg's take considerably more space than it would without them. I certainly would still be interested about this kind of thing, because I really don't need to search in the files too much, and the amount of memory in modern systems it shouldn't be a too much of a problem. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
