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Old 07-06-2006, 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by iceman
You really should consider using winzip or winrar to compress your avi's, Al. It compresses them to like 10-15% of the former size, and the compression is of course lossless to the data itself when you uncompress it.
Huge space saving.
Except that, when the media partially fails after you've compressed 100 files, the zip may not be recoverable. Instead of 1 of 100 files being corrupt if they were stored uncompressed, all the files may be lost if compressed together.

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