From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "paco@hydrofunk.org" Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:08:54 +0000 Subject: Re: Multimedia compression Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Benno Senoner wrote: > I tried shorten some time ago: > > OTOH, when using lossless compression the gain is sometime minimal, > only 20% if you are unlucky. > Not much for my taste. I find this very hard to believe. Speaking from my own experience, I've had nothing but outstanding results with SHORTEN. I collect live concert bootlegs; recorded on DAT, dumped down onto the HDD as WAVs, compressed to SHNs, and burned onto CDs that I listen to. I've got nearly 100 such CDs sitting here at my side, and here's the stats based on those live concert CDs. My average song compression 52% savings My worst single-song comression 35% savings My best single-song compression 60% savings The main thing I wanted to point out is that I've never had a something compress less than 35%. peace, -Paco