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From: Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@usenet.mail.kapsi.fi>
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Subject: Re: Script to conditionally find and compress files recursively
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J Newman <jenniferkatenewman@gmail.com> writes:

> It's true that you cannot tell within the first 5 seconds what the
> ultimate compression ratio will be, but it seems to me (from
> compressing avi/mp4/mov files with lzma -9evv) that you can tell
> within +/- 5% to a high degree of confidence, what the ultimate
> compression ratio will be given the first 5 seconds.

Well then, I believe the solution was already posted. Grab 5% of your
files with dd and see how it compresses. 

I'm a little curious, what kind of space savings do you expect to get by
doing this? And wouldn't it make more sense to re-encode for lower
bitrate if space saving is your goal?