Is there some secret to compressing files? I wanna know how to do it real good so my uploads don't take so long to download. :3
.zip .rar
Print -> Compress (smash) -> Scan
Thx. I tried the printing option in Winrar, but it said the file could not be printed, in some popup diagnostics window. What did I do wrong? ;9
Here's some details:
I'm trying to compress a 700 megabyte video file into a Winrar ZIP folder. What steps should I take?
I don't know if compressing a video into a zip makes it any smaller.
why not convert it into lesser quality.
Quote from: Nouman on October 06, 2008, 11:41:17 PM
I don't know if compressing a video into a zip makes it any smaller.
why not convert it into lesser quality.
Do you think people will really go for that? It's a movie file after all, so the length might explain the space usage. If I make it lesser quality, I'm afraid it might not look so good anymore. :(
But if so, what file format, and what size, should I convert it to?
break it up into multiple files hurr durr herp
Quote from: Fanatical About Anime on October 06, 2008, 11:50:42 PM
If I make it lesser quality, I'm afraid it might not look so good anymore. :(
well of course if you lessen the quality it won't look as good.
On the chance you're not trolling, different types of data are easier/harder to compress. Text is fantastically easy to compress, as the file is largely the same content over and over again. Make a text file, fill it with a million zeroes and then zip it, it'll be tiny compared to the uncompressed text file. The zip algorithm can see that it's just the same data over and over again, so it can essentially "say" in the archive, instead of "111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111~~" etc as the original file is, "1 x a million times".
Video, audio, and graphics (graphics sometimes, a 1600x1200 single single color image follows the text example above) are harder to compress as they're usually unique throughout. Modern video, audio and graphics formats are already compressed formats, and keep in mind that in most cases they're lossy (you lose detail /data during compression). huffYUV, FLAC and PNG are examples of lossless, WMV, MP3 and JPG are their lossy counterparts. A 128kbps MP3 ripped from CD won't give you the same audio data as the original track. When you talk about file compression, you want it lossless. You want the file to come out that you put in, so this further hampers the compression effectiveness. Lossless formats for audio exist (FLAC, generally would be 60-30% smaller than the raw uncompressed (.wav for example) audio) as well as for video but they're gigantic.
To help with long upload/download times for your videos either re-encode them with more aggressive lossy compression, or try to be patient. Keep in mind re-encoding something that's already been encoded with a lossy codec would result in an even worse quality file, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do =o
SUPER (Google for eRightSoft SUPER) or Mediacoder (on sourceforge) are both good media compression tools. H.264 video with AAC audio in an OGM/MKV/MP4 container would be most efficient.
Roph is so smart :*