WinRAR question

DreamsofaCobra · Post by **DreamsofaCobra** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 3:17 pm

Forgive me if this is the wrong forum, I didn't see a general computing...

Anyway, I have an AMV in DV compressed AVI format that comes out to about 1.1 GB that I want to burn to a CD. I compressed it to a RAR archive and it came out to about 519mb. Is this right? I decompressed it and watched it, and it looked alright, but really, all I wanted to do was compress a little and split the file onto 2 CD's. Can I do that and will it look better? I am just suprised at how much it compressed. Any help is appreciated. Also, would a zip file be better? The file is for Anime Expo, so I want it to be as good as possible...

AbsoluteDestiny · Post by **AbsoluteDestiny** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 4:32 pm

DreamsofaCobra wrote:I am just suprised at how much it compressed.

DV actually can compress reasonably well with zip compression in certain circumstances.

There will certainly be no quality loss. Use the zip file.

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Sun Apr 27, 2003 5:08 pm

RAR/ZIP are lossless, so you won't lose anything.

DreamsofaCobra · Post by **DreamsofaCobra** » Mon Apr 28, 2003 3:46 pm

Thanks for the info!
I sent the videos off today, now I just sit and wait...

Synthangel · Post by **Synthangel** » Mon Apr 28, 2003 4:09 pm

Yeah, it'd be kinda bad if you compressed some text/pictures in a zip file and they came out with half of the data missing...

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Mon Apr 28, 2003 5:48 pm

Lzip - Lossy Zip Compression

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Mon Apr 28, 2003 6:35 pm

ErMaC wrote:Lzip - Lossy Zip Compression

It's amazing how many people have yet to discover the power of the Lessiss-Moore algorithm!

DreamsofaCobra · Post by **DreamsofaCobra** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 12:23 am

too late, vids sent, .rar used
I don't compress enough or need the space enough to use some weird compressor. (not that weird is bad, I just need something standard and useable by all) All I want is enough to fit on CD-R and I am happy

But thanks for the heads up. Always good to know about these things

klinky · Post by **klinky** » Tue Apr 29, 2003 12:50 am

Actually that is =o a joke compressor. Less Is More >_>.

It's kind of hard to tell since there are actually "files" you can download.

~klinky

ErMaC · Post by **ErMaC** » Wed Apr 30, 2003 3:55 am

In hindsight I would've felt really bad if he used LZip to compress his videos and sent em off to the competition.

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