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From: scott@CS.Arizona.EDU (Scott E Gilbert)
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Subject: Re: Arnie Movie
Date: 8 Jun 1994 23:10:46 -0700
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 <1994Jun7.183312.22179@aber.ac.uk> <2t2urr$12i@gap.cco.caltech.edu>
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In article <2t2urr$12i@gap.cco.caltech.edu>,
Dan Egnor <egnor@mince.ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:
]In article <1994Jun7.183312.22179@aber.ac.uk>, Simon Bradley
]<syb3@aber.ac.uk> wrote:
]
]]	Under 100 M? The whole movie? Are you *sure*? Wow! :)
]
]Order of magnitude, depending on the "quality" (picture size) and of 
]course the length of the movie.  Let's revise the estimate:
]
]Each frame is ~ 2K in size.  At 20fps, that's 2*20*3600*2 = 288000K, or
]~ 300 megabytes for a 2-hour movie.  So I exaggerated a bit.
]
[snip snip]

Then again, these types of files compress really well.  I'll bet you could
get 10 to 1 compression and turn that into 30 megabytes.

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