File compression question

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sat Jun 09, 2001 7:52 pm

Hey folks, I just zipped a 732 MB file on the highest compression WinZip has (and the slowest), and only got it down to 726 MB.

Any way to super-compress a file? Does WinRar compress any more then WinZip?

Thanks

striderf1 · Post by **striderf1** » Sat Jun 09, 2001 7:56 pm

Originally posted by Humboldt
Hey folks, I just zipped a 732 MB file on the highest compression WinZip has (and the slowest), and only got it down to 726 MB.

Any way to super-compress a file? Does WinRar compress any more then WinZip?

Thanks

winrar claims to compress files down 20% more than winzip can from the original file size, so I would take the original file and rar it, I have gotten files ~45megs to under 35megs with winrar

edit: i would think you could get it into the 600's (megs that is) with winrar, maybe not but try it out, and it goes fairly fast too

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sat Jun 09, 2001 7:58 pm

OK, I'll give it a try. What, http://www.winrar.com or something? I can look of course, but do you have a link?

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sat Jun 09, 2001 7:59 pm

Never mind, found it. Thanks for the tip.

OxBlooD · Post by **OxBlooD** » Sat Jun 09, 2001 8:00 pm

What type of file you try to compress?????????

Humboldt · Post by **Humboldt** » Sat Jun 09, 2001 8:08 pm

Originally posted by OxBlooD
What type of file you try to compress?????????

Avi. Are some more compressable than others? It's all just taking out 0's right?

Joe · Post by **Joe** » Sat Jun 09, 2001 8:12 pm

I doubt winrar is going to compress down to the 600's

OxBlooD · Post by **OxBlooD** » Sat Jun 09, 2001 8:17 pm

Originally posted by Humboldt

Avi. Are some more compressable than others? It's all just taking out 0's right?

Avi is not to compressable

:cry

striderf1 · Post by **striderf1** » Sat Jun 09, 2001 8:32 pm

Originally posted by Humboldt
Never mind, found it. Thanks for the tip.

anytime, I hope winrar works out for you, I use it for zips and everything, I think overall its a totaly better program than winzip

RoscoPColtrane · Post by **RoscoPColtrane** » Sat Jun 09, 2001 11:35 pm

Originally posted by Humboldt

Avi. Are some more compressable than others? It's all just taking out 0's right?

Taking out 0's? To my understanding Compressing looks at the file and finds series of binary that is identicle Gives that serries a code....then just uses the code instead of the entire LINE...is that correct?! or am i just an idiot?!

Brent · Post by **Brent** » Sat Jun 09, 2001 11:39 pm

some files are more compressable then others, and some are less compressable

an avi will not compress much because it's already compressed in it's codec, you know how big that AVI file would be if it were a raw avi file not compressed, GIGS worth in size no telling, it'd be large though and take up tons of space, for example a 30 second clip i recorded once took up 50MB uncompressed

image files compress well on the other hand

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