Hello,
Am 20:44 2002-12-04 -0800 hat Vineet Kumar geschrieben:
>> filename suffixes (never bother with gz, tgz, bz2, zip, jpg, jpeg,
gif, z,
>> Z, mpg, mpeg, avi, wav, mov)
>
>Huh? some AVIs and all WAVs are uncompressed, and will benefit
>enormously from compression. The theory here is corr
Pigeon wrote:
> I think the point re WAVs is that gzip and its kin don't compress them
> very well so you waste a lot of cpu and get something that if you're
> lucky is 90% of the original file size. I think there's a program
> called 'flac' that will compress them to around 60-70% of original
> s
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:44:28PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Charlie Reiman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021204 18:26]:
> > filename suffixes (never bother with gz, tgz, bz2, zip, jpg, jpeg, gif, z,
> > Z, mpg, mpeg, avi, wav, mov)
>
> Huh? some AVIs and all WAVs are uncompressed, and will benefi
> -Original Message-
> From: Vineet Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 8:44 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Determining the usefulness of compression
>
>
> * Charlie Reiman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021204 18:26]:
>
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:44:28PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> Huh? some AVIs and all WAVs are uncompressed, and will benefit
> enormously from compression. The theory here is correct, though:
> don't try to compress already-compressed data; it won't work.
Well, depends on what you mean by uncom
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 08:44:28PM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Charlie Reiman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021204 18:26]:
[...]
Thanks for the help guys. I'll go with the filtype/filesize comparisons
suggested.
Rob
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* Charlie Reiman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [021204 18:26]:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Rob VanFleet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 5:40 PM
> >
> > I am writing a script that will compress certain files passed to it
> > (well, that's a part of the script) an
> -Original Message-
> From: Rob VanFleet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 5:40 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Determining the usefulness of compression
>
>
> I am writing a script that will compress certain files passed to i
I am writing a script that will compress certain files passed to it
(well, that's a part of the script) and I was wondering if there was a
simple way to determine if a file is worth compressing or not. I know
that with some very small files, compression actually increases the file
size. Should I
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