HFS+ compression options (WAS: VLC cannot play MKV files?)

[René J.V. Bertin]

On Friday January 29 2016 09:23:15 Eric A. Borisch wrote:

>Perhaps an opportunistic execution of afsctool on just-extracted (not
>yet moved into place) files in portimage.tcl (similar to the
>opportunistic use of lbzip2 or pbzip2 during extraction) could be
>done?

Sure, that's a possibility.

>I'd tend towards find + xargs (possibly with -P <jobs> to speed

I'm not sure why you'd want that? Even the "stock" afsctool can take a directory.

>controlled (able to be forcefully disabled) by a config option and a
>check that the filesystem is HFS+.

Afsctool won't attempt anything if the fs isn't HFS+ or the file isn't of a supported type.

R.