CD image size recovery suggestions

[Tristan Wibberley]

Colin Watson wrote:
> I spent a little while this evening looking through options for
> recovering the enormous size deficit (up to 30MB in places) on our
> current CD images, and applied one or two things before realising that I
> could easily sort out Ubuntu in the short term by removing lots of
> language packs. However, this isn't an ideal approach in the medium
> term, so I still want to explore options.

[snippety all over the place]

> Various people suggested removing gthumb, since f-spot now replaces it
> (except for some cases where eog fills the gap). This seems potentially
> controversial, but might be reasonable.


Neither f-spot nor eog are very good for printing photos - even gthumb 
is not as good as the Windows XP wizard, but it does at least make photo 
printing tasks possible for somebody without oodles of DTP skill. Remind 
me why f-spot features are needed out of the box - I understand that 
there are some professional photographers that need it to catalogue huge 
photo sets, is that the only demographic?


> example-content has the 11MB "Experience ubuntu.ogg" video. This was
> sort of a Dapper special, and I wonder if it makes sense to keep it
> around forever.


It might help to remaster it. It's 928kbps (in dapper at least) but 
looks about 150kbps (if that). I think it could easily be made to look 
very similar in quality for only 3MB, a saving of 7.5MB.


-- 
Tristan Wibberley - "it" is the preferred noun of an abated intellect.

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