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Hosted Projects - FS2 Required => Inferno => Topic started by: Kie99 on December 25, 2004, 12:09:12 pm

Title: Compression?
Post by: Kie99 on December 25, 2004, 12:09:12 pm

What compression do you guys use for the files.  Do you use RAR, if you don't would it be possible to put Zip AND Rar files up for download.  I don't think my connection could stand another ~136MB download for Release 2.

Title: Compression?
Post by: Kosh on December 25, 2004, 06:08:42 pm

I'm pretty sure it will end up being over 90 MB no matter what format is used.

Title: Compression?
Post by: Woomeister on December 26, 2004, 02:01:33 pm

We'll be using the installer format we used for r1 most likely, as the installation has options this time for high res dds stuf.f

I can put that in a self extracting rar file, but it won't compress much more.

It really depends on how we decide to distribute it, which we won't know till all the mods are finalised.

Title: Compression?
Post by: T-Man on December 26, 2004, 04:49:51 pm

This is gonna sound really dumb, but i remember once having a download that had been ZIPed, then the ZIP was ZIPed, then again, and again, and again...I had to unzip about 6 ZIP's in order to reach the files.

Again, i know that's a dumb idea, but it was a thought.

Title: Compression?
Post by: Taristin on December 26, 2004, 04:51:12 pm

That'll actually increase the filesize. So yes, it is a dumb idea.

Title: Compression?
Post by: Grimloq on December 27, 2004, 12:48:00 am

hmm... ive gotten taht to work before :) i dont know how, but i did... LOL

Title: Compression?
Post by: SadisticSid on December 27, 2004, 06:50:27 am

It's highly unlikely that you did (although Zip compression is single pass so it could be possible)

Title: Compression?
Post by: Woomeister on December 27, 2004, 07:10:24 am

It is possible sometimes to zip a zip for a slight size decrease, however I've heard of people having more extraction problems the more times an archived is archived into another.

I don't use zip format anyway, rar is far better :)

Title: Compression?
Post by: Taristin on December 27, 2004, 10:19:20 am

Ja.

Title: Compression?
Post by: Kosh on December 27, 2004, 05:46:21 pm

Compression can only go so far.

Title: Compression?
Post by: Kie99 on December 28, 2004, 01:08:14 pm

IDEA!
Rar----goes into-------zip----goes into-------Rar----goes into-------Zip etc.

Title: Compression?
Post by: Moonsword on December 28, 2004, 01:31:33 pm

Somehow, I don't think that's going to be much of an improvement...

Title: Compression?
Post by: Kie99 on December 29, 2004, 02:52:57 pm

BTW
Yes, I did completely ignore Kosh's post.

Title: Compression?
Post by: Gloriano on December 29, 2004, 03:27:19 pm

Quote

Originally posted by kietotheworld
IDEA!
Rar----goes into-------zip----goes into-------Rar----goes into-------Zip etc.

that won't work and it would be really annoying

Title: Compression?
Post by: Kosh on December 30, 2004, 01:39:51 am

Quote

Originally posted by kietotheworld
BTW
Yes, I did completely ignore Kosh's post.

Despite the fact that I'm right and you're wrong. :rolleyes:

Title: Compression?
Post by: Grimloq on December 30, 2004, 03:22:26 pm

most of the time if i try to compress something more than once windows starts yelling at me. *slaps windows* NO! BAD windows! NO biscuit!

Title: Compression?
Post by: Taristin on December 30, 2004, 03:50:52 pm

If you're trying to compress something more than once, you deserve to be yelled at. You're only increasing the chances of data corruption, and you're making the file larger with every extra pass.

Title: Compression?
Post by: Grimloq on December 30, 2004, 04:27:12 pm

i just wanted to find out what happened :)

Title: Compression?
Post by: Taristin on December 30, 2004, 04:33:22 pm

Try it. :p

Title: Compression?
Post by: FireCrack on December 30, 2004, 04:33:38 pm

the only proper way to "double compress" is an mp3 in a zip or a jpg in a rar or somthing akin to that.

Title: Compression?
Post by: Kosh on January 01, 2005, 10:36:32 pm

Then can we flame kietotheworld for posting a suggestion that was already shot down?


*lights flamethrower just in case* :D

Title: Compression?
Post by: Woomeister on January 02, 2005, 04:24:28 am

no, at least not in here :p