i have a internal hard drive that when lookn in properties the box isnt checkt for compressing and saving disk space.and i have alot of 700mb movie files and was wondering if i checkt this box and clickt on ok,when it starts to compress will i lose any video quality when i play these back or when i put them on disc.
the format of the dd is in NTFS. cheers
2007-03-07 04:35:49 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
There is no need to enable compression.
The 700mb files you have are already compressed using various codecs.
All compression would do is slow down your access to information and probably will not save you much space.
2007-03-07 04:39:08 · answer #1 · answered by Bjorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, you don't lose any information, if it were so then nothing would work properly on your computer. It's compressed but the information is totally retrieved.
Yes, if you use a previously compressed format then there is no need for more compression, you can not apply an algorithm twice without loss of efficiency, it's useless, the algorithm is used to eliminate redundancy and you can not do it twice.
2007-03-07 04:47:08 · answer #2 · answered by Pichurri 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you won't loose video quality if you compress the disk but you will suffer with a computer performance drop because windows has to decompress before it can use data why not put the video's on disk to save hard disk space at only 700mb you can get one a cd or about six on a dvd
2007-03-07 04:47:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋