.7z (7zip) streaming support

[PhantombrainM]

Hello,

i dont know if this is a possible request or not because i dont know if some archive formats are able to have access "on the fly" without decompressing the whole file first but

I would love to have playback of compressed files.

I tried to compress some .vob files. ZIP is getting about 4-5% smaller file sizes but 7zip is getting about 10-20% smaller sizes! Thats a lot if a DVD has ~5GB of space.

But it dont have to be implemented in the way of decompressing the whole file to a temporary folder first. In that case it would take a lot of time before playback starts and it would stress your harddisk a lot.

I thought of something like this:

If you could add a cache of about 64MB or 128MB RAM and decompress the streaming of it on the fly this would be a great feature. As i know no player can do this at the moment. CPUs of today should be fast enough.

What do you think?

regards
PhantombrainM

[redfox750]

What The Hell Are You Talking About? DVD? Damn you live in world with out limitation , my WelCome to RMVB world my biggest Movie is 400 MB For 1 Hour and better that your damn DVD quality, oh god i get sick of that wasted Space!!

[mad]

redfox750, please dont offend. Some people dont like lossy formats. And his post isnt really about a DVD, but about 7zip support.

[PhantombrainM]

@Redfox750, i dont know why you are so upset?

@all and mad: Your thought was right. Im talking about lossless compression.
Otherwise I would use x264 or something...