I still quite like the idea of a standalone that contains the actual data, sort of like a self-extracting archive, and in cases like these, the engines' 2.8mb overhead would hardly be a problem.
sd2 is, indeed out of date, but actually in quite common use still. I suppose because it was always the 'native' format for ProTools. The guy I'm working with seems to prefer them, for some reason. I've settled with WAVs, myself, but he hasn't.
Cheers,
Mark
On 14 May 2005, at 02:19, Steven Barncard wrote:
One thing you should know is that Stuffit and most data compression will not save you any size with audio. There are special lossless compression techniques for audio, but they are proprietary and time-consuming, and the best you could do would be 2:1 with those. Lemper-Ziv/ RLE encoding of audio will probably make the file BIGGER.
Also SD2 is an obsolete audio format, Apple-centric with resource forks, and that's probably where the problems are. Try converting source files to WAV files instead, which do not have resource forks, and can probably survive the travel.
You shouldn't have to build a standalone as a carrier.
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