Most Compression format

[OrangeSoul]

Which file format like zip or rar or sit(apple) compresses the file to a maximum

[YaZoR]

heard this all before, and personally i seem to find WinRAR/RAR the best for compression & popularity. that is not to say it is the most popular or the most compressive, just a good average between the two.

[Godzilla]

WinAce using .bz2 format for me

[HoochieMamma]

WinRAR ;)

[.Atlantis]

RAR for me!

[snocked]

  sryo said:

Archiver Compressed size Ratio

7-Zip (7z format) 5445402 100%

WinRAR 3.10 6004155 110%

WinAce 2.3 6242424 115%

CABARC 1.0 6455327 119%

7-Zip (zip format) 9461621 174%

PKZIP 2.50 9842800 181%

FILE SET: The GIMP 1.2.4 for Windows after full installation (127 subfolders, 1304 files totaling 27,128,826 bytes). The GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It can be downloaded from www.gimp.org.

Thank you for actually posting some data to back up your reply and not some scab's opinion.

[mm3h]

ZIP is most common imo

RAR is the the best :)

[edgrale]

LZIP Advanced File Compression Utility

LZip

[linsook]

if ur looking for best compressing program.... winrar

but if u looking for best compression algorithm UHARC hands down.

[MxxCon]

  linsook said:

but if u looking for best compression algorithm UHARC hands down.

no it doesn't.

myth and other warez groups use it to pack textures becuase that's the only thing it's good at. at everything else it's INSANELY slow and doesn't compress that good. even uharc v0.5

edgrale, yup, and for backup i use my tape array at /dev/null

[Yuxi]

I would say RAR.

[linsook]

  MxxCon said:

no it doesn't.

myth and other warez groups use it to pack textures becuase that's the only thing it's good at. at everything else it's INSANELY slow and doesn't compress that good. even uharc v0.5

edgrale, yup, and for backup i use my tape array at /dev/null

i am still going to stand by what i said. it has the best compression. it is insanely slow, and taking that into consideration the difference in compression that it gives compared to rar is so minimal its not even worth using... but never the less it makes the file size smaller without a doubt, no matter how minimal the difference is.

for practicallity its gets a zero... but it answers his question.

[MxxCon]

it is not the best. there are still better overall compression programs

[iron2000]

Since we are on compression:

Can PowerArchiver compress to RAR?

How good is this prog?

[dewy]

7z - 7zip - http://7-zip.org/ - Best Compresion. :-D and FREE :woot:

[Evolution]

yeah, I think I'll stick with 7zip since it supports a variety of formats, is convenient and free. Although WinRAR seems tempting, it's not free :(

BTW does anyone here use TAR compression? For me it's the most useless compression ever. Is it particularly effective for any type of media or file?

[futb0l]

  linsook said:

if ur looking for best compressing program.... winrar

but if u looking for best compression algorithm UHARC hands down.

UHarc rules... i've been using it to compress big files over 1gb ... and it can compress it down to 500mb or even lesser :) :yes:

[futb0l]

  linsook said:

i am still going to stand by what i said. it has the best compression. it is insanely slow, and taking that into consideration the difference in compression that it gives compared to rar is so minimal its not even worth using... but never the less it makes the file size smaller without a doubt, no matter how minimal the difference is.

for practicallity its gets a zero... but it answers his question.

i know UHARC is slow but on compressing big files to upload on a slow connection, it's worth it :)

[MxxCon]

  futb0l said:

i've been using it to compress big files over 1gb ... and it can compress it down to 500mb or even lesser :) :yes:

totally and absolutly irrelevant.

like i posted before, 14k rar file has 4terabytes of content in it.

saying this archiver compressed so much data to this size is irrelevant w/o objective comparison with another archiver. and YOU are not objective so don't bother replaying saying rar packed it to 700megs

[XavierHyde]

7-Zip has the best compression ratio, no contest. But RAR is not far behind, so since it's faster and more popular you should probably go with that one.

Third, I believe, is LZX, which is now a subformat of CAB (which is only a container just like AVI, and can use several compression formats).

[SimplyPotatoes]

uharc is awful and slow and linsook who cares about your pictures no one uses uharc

7zip is slow as hell and for the few seconds i turned into a retard and tried it out, it didnt compress better then rar

use winrar

[iron2000]

I want to take a 744MB avi file down to 700MB, which format should I use?

(Tried RAR and UHA but both can only compress to 720MB+)

[Evolution]

  iron2000 said:

I want to take a 744MB avi file down to 700MB, which format should I use?

(Tried RAR and UHA but both can only compress to 720MB+)

Have you tried zip? You may be quite surprised with the results.