From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon Jun 29 19:06:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA00902 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:06:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thelab.hub.org (tc-62.acadiau.ca [131.162.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA00765 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 19:06:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.8.8/8.8.2) with SMTP id XAA09276; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:05:42 -0300 (ADT) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 23:05:42 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: "Daniel O'Connor" cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DjVu from ATT In-Reply-To: <199806300148.LAA22346@cain.gsoft.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 30 Jun 1998, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > > quality for their test pics was good (but what do you expect :) > > > Its fairly slow tho.. > > slow when viewing, or compresing? > I didn't try compressing, viewing was fairly slow and thrashy (P100 w/ 64Mb of > RAM, but not much _free_ RAM.. YMMV) I ran it on a Win95 box, using the Netscape Plug-In, and considering how much smaller the file is from a similar jpeg (~1/6 in some cases), I would imagine that the savings in downloading would offset the decompression, no? And, with more and more ppl using faster computers for their 'primary system', decompressing becomes less of an issue then bandwidth. BTW...by bandwidth, I don't necessarily mean your computer to the 'Net, I mean the 'Net as a whole...if everyone used this, there would be (by AT&Ts claims of 5 to 10x better compression then Jpeg), that much less data (image wise) being strewn across the 'Net... So, you would end up downloading the images faster, and then spending a little more time decompressing, vs downloadign the slower and decompressing them fast... Marc G. Fournier Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message