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Subject: Re: [9fans] Venti by another name
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>
> Can any lossless compression scheme improve on {J,M}PEG? If multiple
> streams are stored in venti then there may be some common blocks but
> even that should not significantly surpass RAR algorithm's "solid"
> archiving of the same streams. Not that I understand these things.
>
Only if there are shared blocks. Macro blocks in MPEG are 8x8 pixels
which makes them < 32k in size. If you're lucky you might just align
them when written to Venti!

I'll know soon enough as I'm in the process of building a Venti store
for our video files. I just wondered if anyone had done it already.

I doubt there's much in it.

Matt