[Poll] Compression Comparison Guide - What Files Do You Compress? - Page 2

Mac Daddy · 24th Apr 2008, 08:16 AM

I agree on both the comments above

hjlavery · 24th Apr 2008, 11:58 AM

You might want to add CD immages to the list (ISO/ISZ formats)

lee_what2004 · 24th Apr 2008, 03:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Mix content is never a good idea because what I consider to be a good mix will not be a good mix for you or someone else. You know what I mean?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chai

Yeah people hardly compress with mixed contents and it's pointless because there's too many variables.

ok, understand

just thinking a mix of everything, though

Adrian Wong · 24th Apr 2008, 05:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hjlavery

You might want to add CD immages to the list (ISO/ISZ formats)

Okay, one problem with ISO/ISZ images is that they are basically containers for the actual content. So, their "compressibility" depends on what's stored in them.

If the CD contains uncompressed BMP files, for example, then the ISO/ISZ images will have very high compression ratios. But if the CD image contains compressed DiVX files, then it will have a very low compression ratio.

Adrian Wong · 24th Apr 2008, 05:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lee_what2004

ok, understand

just thinking a mix of everything, though

In our current article, we actually have aggregated results.. which basically adds all the results together to give you an "overall" result. That is kind of a "mixed" result.

Adrian Wong · 24th Apr 2008, 05:18 PM

Right now, I'm thinking of adding Photoshop Filters (8BF) and maybe Driver Sets (mix of ATI and NVIDIA drivers).

What do you think?

Mac Daddy · 24th Apr 2008, 06:58 PM

Hmmm not 2 things I would normally compress but could be included. Drivers already have some sort of compression in them so not sure how compressing them more would work never tried it

Chai · 24th Apr 2008, 07:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Adrian Wong

Right now, I'm thinking of adding Photoshop Filters (8BF) and maybe Driver Sets (mix of ATI and NVIDIA drivers).

What do you think?

I wouldn't bother with Photoshop Filters. Drivers, maybe. But then again, I normally download from the official site, so most likely they won't use third party compression.

lee_what2004 · 24th Apr 2008, 07:23 PM

mmm, what about .EXE ?

Adrian Wong · 25th Apr 2008, 01:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lee_what2004

mmm, what about .EXE ?

You actually compress EXEs???

View Poll Results: What kinds of files do you USUALLY compress?
Lossy compressed music files (MP3, WMA)	14	40.00%
Lossless compressed music files (FLAC, etc.)	4	11.43%
Uncompressed music files (WAV)	8	22.86%
Lossy compressed graphics (JPG)	16	45.71%
Lossless compressed graphics (PNG, GIF, PSD, TIF)	16	45.71%
Uncompressed graphics (BMP)	12	34.29%
Compressed HD/SD video clips (MPEG, DiVX, AVI, WMV)	4	11.43%
Work Documents (DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX)	26	74.29%
Presentations (PPT)	15	42.86%
Pure Text Files (TXT, CSV)	15	42.86%
Adobe Acrobat eBooks (PDF)	16	45.71%
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