Well, gunzip *is* a "streaming gunzip engine".. with the -c flag. Unfortunately there was a bug in my original post advertising a really good compression ratio with gzip vs. mp3. Mp3 compresses much, much better. Sorry about the false alarm, chris
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Mathew Johnston wrote: > I think that he's asking why not just gzip waves and gunzip when you need to > listen to > them. The answer, is that gzip is not designed for audio, and gzip is > lossless. MP3 > is designed for audio - it is lossful in that it removed bits of audio that > normally a > person wouldnt be able to hear anyway. MP3 gets what is it... 1:10 > compression or so > on a wave? gzip would get much less. Also, mp3 can be decompressed as needed > where > you'd have to totally unpack with gunzip and then play. Unless... someone > wants to > write a sort of streaming gunzip engine :) > > Mathew Johnston
