02-05-2005, 08:53 AM
Drasca,Feb 4 2005, 02:44 AM Wrote:At the very least, send that 30 gigs of anime to .zip compression! That'll save you some space.
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I'd just like to say that this probably won't help much. Video files are generally already using pretty tight compression and so trying to zip them has very little benefit. Like for instance, I just tried zipping an anime episode that is 245,125,120 bytes and when zipped it became 239,132,071 bytes. If you use "best" mode instead of "normal" then it becomes 239,068,799 bytes. So even using "best" mode for zip compression you are only seeing a gain of about 3%. So for 30G you are talking cutting it down to 29.1G. So while you are gaining 900M of space in this instance (which may be helpful for playing the game), overall its a very small gain. One also has to consider the time it would take to compress it and the hassle of decompressing it anytime the person wishes to watch the episode.
Basically my point is that for video files, the space gained from compressing them is rarely worth the time and hassle of dealing with the compressed files.