Posted by CQ on 11/29/07 14:23

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:09:22 +0000, Eeyore
rabbitsfriendsandrelations@hotmail.com in <474EBA02.8A21EA95
@hotmail.com> enlightened us like so:

> Fair enough.
>
> How much data compression can the non-lossy ones deliver ? I've never investigated. I imagine
> it can't be that much.

The most widely used lossless compression codecs average a bit more than
a 40% reduction in file size. That's a significant compression by any
standard.

http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Lossless_comparison

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CQ

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