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

Discussion in 'General Software' started by Adrian Wong, Apr 22, 2008.

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What kinds of files do you USUALLY compress?

  1. Lossy compressed music files (MP3, WMA)

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  2. Lossless compressed music files (FLAC, etc.)

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  3. Uncompressed music files (WAV)

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  4. Lossy compressed graphics (JPG)

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  5. Lossless compressed graphics (PNG, GIF, PSD, TIF)

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  6. Uncompressed graphics (BMP)

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  7. Compressed HD/SD video clips (MPEG, DiVX, AVI, WMV)

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  8. Work Documents (DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX)

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  9. Presentations (PPT)

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  10. Pure Text Files (TXT, CSV)

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  11. Adobe Acrobat eBooks (PDF)

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  1. lee_what2004

    lee_what2004 Just Started

    the question is what kind of files you always compress it(make it become a .rar or .zip ,etc.)
    not what kind of compression you always do.
     
    lee_what2004, May 15, 2008
    #61
  2. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    Yeah, that's right! :thumb:

    I just want to know what kinds of files you usually compress using a data archiver like WinRAR or WinZip. :mrgreen:
     
    Adrian Wong, May 17, 2008
    #62
  3. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    Thanks for the votes so far, guys, but we need more!! If you have not voted, please do me a big favour and vote now. Thanks!! :thumb: :thumb:
     
    Adrian Wong, May 23, 2008
    #63
  4. Zenphic

    Zenphic Newbie

    Bumppity bump
    and voted :)
     
    Zenphic, May 25, 2008
    #64
  5. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    Thanks! :thumb:
     
    Adrian Wong, May 25, 2008
    #65
  6. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    Ahh.. 27 voters so far. More please! Thanks! :beer: :beer:
     
    Adrian Wong, Jun 11, 2008
    #66
  7. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    29 voters! Yes! More please!! :thumb: :thumb:
     
    Adrian Wong, Jun 15, 2008
    #67
  8. Ischemia24

    Ischemia24 Newbie

    Just voted.
    I like the compression guide. It had never even occurred to me to use a Fast setting in a compression program since I'm obsessed with compression ratios. It was interesting to see that WinRK on Fast still beat most other programs on their Max settings (in the Aggregated Results). I also like that you compressed 200 MB of each filetype.
    There's a similar compression guide online at Maximum Compression, though they separate the filetypes differently.
    There's single file compression for each type (typically a tiny 4 MB or less), then there's multiple file compression using several filetypes, totaling 301 MB. The tester apparently has an incredible amount of time to dedicate to the project, testing over 100 programs and trying to find the best combination of command line switches to yield the best compression ratio (if the program offers it).
    The site also provides links to other compression benchmarks, but I haven't had time to look at any of them yet.
     
    Last edited: Nov 19, 2008
    Ischemia24, Oct 30, 2008
    #68
  9. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    I will be redoing it but I will need to redo the benchmark files. I need more votes. Please vote! :D
     
    Adrian Wong, Nov 6, 2008
    #69
  10. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    More votes please!! :D
     
    Adrian Wong, Nov 16, 2008
    #70
  11. starboykb

    starboykb Newbie

    Vote! Normally I compress PDF a lot.
     
    starboykb, Nov 17, 2008
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  12. Zenphic

    Zenphic Newbie

    wahh the poll has been open for a long time :)
     
    Zenphic, Nov 17, 2008
    #72
  13. Adrian Wong

    Adrian Wong Da Boss Staff Member

    Yeah, but only 34 votes so far. We need MOARRRR! :mrgreen:
     
    Adrian Wong, Nov 19, 2008
    #73
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