devnulllore Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 Hi, I know it depends on what type of files are being compressed but what is currently the best compression program available? I don't care if it's free or pay I am just looking for the overall best compression ration across all file types. Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 LittleNeutrino Veteran Posted January 10, 2014 Veteran Share Posted January 10, 2014 so far as i know 7-zip and 7z files are the best you can get for consumer usage anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 n_K Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 7z probably (windows) GZIP, LZMA, etc. (linux) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 User6060 Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 are we talking about compressing a file or multiple files into a zip or tar.gz or rar are we talking about compressing a wav into mp3 or m4a are we talking about compressing dv video into a web format like h264, divx, webM, flv i used to use 7zip a lot to make .zip and .7z for a random assortment of files in a folder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Andre S. Veteran Posted January 10, 2014 Veteran Share Posted January 10, 2014 Yup, specifically the LZMA SDK is free (in both senses of the word) and provides the highest compression entropy coding available, as far as I know. This is what the popular 7-zip program uses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Torolol Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 but if you're looking to creates .zip format, the deflate method included in 7z program are not as efficient as those in kzip. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 ryokurin Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 so far as i know 7-zip and 7z files are the best you can get for consumer usage anyway. It really depends on what it is compressing. RAR5 has beat 7zip compression and speed recently in several tests. Not to mention RAR's built in redundancy capabilities or ability to open partial rars. There is no clear cut best, just use the best tool for the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Phouchg Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 PAQ and its derivative UDA, perhaps. Although it's extremely computationally expensive, as in hours, last time Then there's Nanozip, although it's in blue hell now, but it's highly capable and also quite fast. And then there's WinRK, with its own RK format, although the name says it's for Windows only and it's quite slow. That'd be about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 vcfan Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 i found rar to be the best all around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 installshield_freak Posted January 10, 2014 Share Posted January 10, 2014 uharc used to be pretty good. Havent used it in a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 snaphat (Myles Landwehr) Member Posted January 11, 2014 Member Share Posted January 11, 2014 http://freearc.org/HFCB.aspx (as in, you should just look at benchmark results to determine this) http://freearc.org/Maximal-Practical-Compression.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 papercut2008uk Posted January 11, 2014 Share Posted January 11, 2014 7-zip, the latest one, but you need a load of memory to get the best compression. if you set the 'Dictionary' size to the largest you can (note the memory used for compression will be your limit depending on how much RAM you have). if you have a load of RAM, the dictionary size can be larger and so compress much more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Andre S. Veteran Posted January 11, 2014 Veteran Share Posted January 11, 2014 http://freearc.org/HFCB.aspx (as in, you should just look at benchmark results to determine this) http://freearc.org/Maximal-Practical-Compression.aspx That's interesting. Actually 7-zip wins the 2nd benchmark on that page and they're very close in both tests, but I didn't know about PPM compression. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I know it depends on what type of files are being compressed but what is currently the best compression program available? I don't care if it's free or pay I am just looking for the overall best compression ration across all file types.
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