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Why would you try to compress pictures....in your case zip is as good as everything else (and less problematic to open)
by nix23 5y ago
Why would you try to compress pictures....in your case zip is as good as everything else (and less problematic to open)
- lifthrasiir 5y agoOr if your friends all have WinZip and can tolerate .zipx (which is a file extension for later and thus less interoperable version of ZIP), it does support JPEG recompression so it can be actually better than RAR.
- anthk 5y agoAny lossy compression format it's crap.
- lifthrasiir 5y agoNo, JPEG recompression I meant is not lossy here; it is essentially taking the internal JPEG data structure and losslessly compressing them in more modern techniques. If you want there is also an open source algorithm [1] developed and used by Dropbox. [1] https://github.com/dropbox/lepton https://github.com/dropbox/lepton
- wongarsu 5y agoOk, bad example, imagine I would be sending you ... text files or something. The point I was trying to make was how viable it is, not how useful it is.
- nix23 5y agoYes please zip there too since i don't think it would be gigabytes of text. If sending gigabytes of text please use lzip ;)
- ValentineC 5y ago> If sending gigabytes of text please use lzip ;) I had to look up lzip.
- nix23 5y agoI know it's not pretty much used...but it's a great format for "important information" as you can read here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzip#Application https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lzip#Application https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/xz_inadequate.html https://parltrack.org/dumps https://parltrack.org/dumps