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Zipping movies and pictures
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:53 am
by thetarget
Hey guys, any of you guys here tried to squeeze some bytes out of archive videos or pictures here?
I tried zipping 10GB of movie and the zip file is 10.1GB... Tried 7-zip, Winzip Pro, WinRar.
Any luck for you guys?
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:09 am
by SHAdmin
Usually multimedia files do not get compressed with .zip algorithm.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:08 pm
by thetarget
.7z or .rar then? lol feel so silly waiting 3 hrs for nothing..
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:15 am
by Tomf
That's the case I'm afraid, but if you don't mond long extract times you could try UHARC it can compress from 180mb to over 1gb
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:46 pm
by Tcoo
what yall talking about i zipped 20 gigs down to 18 gigs using winzip
Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2008 5:59 pm
by thetarget
zipped 2 gigs?
what did you compressed?
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 12:35 am
by Tails5
Have you tried making a tarball? (.tar) I think that's good compresion, but also UHARC is very good compression.
Posted: Sat Apr 26, 2008 2:01 pm
by Tcoo
i didnt use nothin i guess it did it auto
Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 3:51 pm
by Alwahsh
lol , I don't thing media files can be compressed
Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 1:00 pm
by sazabi
Is it related the file format of your file? Some file format, says Jpeg and rmvb, they are already highly compressed so it will not with a big effect on sizes by zipping it.