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

[Eric A. Borisch]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 9:45 AM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Haven't played with it; that's even easier. Does it parallelize, too?

>>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.

One less check to perform then.

 - Eric