On Wednesday 16 December 2009 10:16:42 bo-le wrote: > Am Montag, 14. Dezember 2009 00:08:37 schrieb Ian Clarke: > > As a test, I attempted to upload a 1GB avi file through FProxy. It > > then proceeded to spend (at least) 20 minutes trying to compress it - > > I say "at least" because I killed it before it was done. > > > > Of course, attempting to compress an already compressed file is > > completely fruitless. > > > > What gives? > > > > Ian. > > > > Some thoughts on it: > Expose a compression codec selector on the upload page would help. ( see > http://wiki.freenetproject.org/FCP2p0ClientPut, > parameter 'codecs')
Urgh! Maybe in advanced mode but why do we even need it then? They can use a custom client if they care that much about it! > > Compressing a 1G file with all codecs to find the best is indeed a bad idea > ;), but compressing a non-lzma-precompressed > file with LZMA should allways save at least a few chunks. > > Looking at filenames/extensions is imho not the best way, most compression > tools have a strenght parameter: > 'zip -0' gives you a 'tar effect', 'zip -9' is maybe already optimized. > > mv data.lzma2 data.dat As nextgens has (repeatedly!) pointed out, compression is a net gain on Freenet for almost all files, and particularly for media files. -------------- 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/20100108/c87391a5/attachment.pgp>
