> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Check out www.etree.org , the .SHN (Shorten) format is > lossless compression, and can be played in winamp (with a > plugin). Not sure what the compression ratio is. > > JT Nothing special, just 2:1 in lossless mode, based on Huffman coding. Anyobody can do fast 2:1 lossless. LempelZev + Huffman can do better than 2:1. Here's a technical report on Shorten: http://svr-www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~ajr/GroupPubs/Robinson94-tr156/index.html Found the link to it from http://www.softsound.com/Shorten.html -- Howard Chu Chief Architect, Symas Corp. Director, Highland Sun http://www.symas.com http://highlandsun.com/hyc > ----------------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this list send a message containing just the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]