Recording to & playing from compressed folders (in XP)

[korben_dallas]

Is anyone doing this? Does it work ok? Any lag?

[sleonard]

I doubt this would be of any benefit since the video and audio is already compressed. Folder compression in XP would not compress further and would likely add "lag".

[bluenote]

yes, do yourself a favor korbin and don't do this.

If your system/HD is fast enough you might not *notice* the lag, but it will certainly be inefficient, and as above poster noted, you should not get appreciable compression since the stream is already compressed.

(Yes, it is possible to get further compression you say .. Mpeg - 4 , divx ...) but those are medium specific. ZIP is all purpose and generally will not find "redundancy" in the file to make it smaller by "symbolizing" that data.

(if a text file has 25 Z's at the beginning, thats 25 bytes. if you represent it as "25Z" and have a program that knows what that represents, then you've saved yourself about 22 bytes. Thats sortof how compression works in general.)

Hope this helps. If you still want to try it, throw one of your mpeg files into a zip and check the compression ratio.

Cory