[Gllug] Re: [linuxjobs] Cypher: help requested

Chris Bell chrisbell at overview.demon.co.uk
Mon May 31 12:55:10 UTC 2004


On Mon 31 May, Richard Jones wrote:
> 

> 
> The exact phrase is "Theoretically, depending upon the processor
> available for decoding, data-transmission could exceed 12GB/hour over
> the dial-up connection, well above DSL".  He doesn't specify the type
> of data, so we can assume this is a general compression method
> attaining 12GB vs 25MB / hour = approx. 500:1 compression.
> 
> Even if we assume he's just talking about video compression, that is
> incredibly optimistic.
> 
   Perhaps he intends to include a filter to remove anything not worth
watching

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Chris Bell

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