[Stealth]

I've got several files that are between 702 and 725 MB.  Unfortunately, they're just barely too big to fit on a 700MB CD :-/

I've tried Winzip and Winrar compression, but even with Winrar, a 720 MB file becomes 706 MB or thereabouts.  Is there any powerful compression that i don't know about that would help get below the 700MB mark?  anyone?

[Thorn]

ACE possibly.. but I cant be sure... rarely use it....

[Stealth]

oh, ok.  i'd also like to have one that doesn't take 6 hours to compress a 700 MB file... preferably in less than 20 minutes if at all possible

[an0n]

There's that one that all the warez people use. ARC or something.

But it has to be compiled to the specifications of the file IIRC.

[Thorn]

Originally posted by an0n
There's that one that all the warez people use. ARC or something.

But it has to be compiled to the specifications of the file IIRC.

ACE... I dont think it requires anything special...

[Rictor]

Try overburning using Nero. Usually, if you try to record something in Nero and its too big, it will either tell you "Too big" or it will ask you to finalize the CD and then it will fit.

There's probably a more advanced approach to overburning, but this is the layman way :D

[Kamikaze]

Try bzip2.

http://sources.redhat.com/bzip2/

[Liberator]

I have seen a compressed file, usually an ACE, archived inside a RAR.  I don't know what the compression on the RAR is but the ACE is usually about 3-1.  ~600 goes down to ~200.  Of course, these may have been secondary compression, but there you go.

[mikhael]

I'll second the Bzip2 idea.

Liberator, the reason that people put other archives inside RARs is not for additional compression. The mathematics of compression algortihms virtually guarantees that any well-compressed data stream will only benefit trivially from a second compression pass.

The reason they put other archives into RARs is that RAR has a tighter password protection scheme than most other archive formats.

[an0n]

Originally posted by Thorn

ACE... I dont think it requires anything special...

No, not ACE. There's a one they use that extracts using a DOS window.

[Starfury]

Split it into 2 rar files.  

[Setekh]

Originally posted by mikhael
I'll second the Bzip2 idea.

And thirded. My brother has fallen in love with Bzip2, hardly ever uses anything else.

[Xelion]

Originally posted by an0n
No, not ACE. There's a one they use that extracts using a DOS window.

That compression software is commercial grade and would be hard to get online. Try Kazaa or contacting one of those dudes that does that stuff

[Fury]

7zip is supposed to be pretty good.
http://www.7-zip.org/

I wish it would have a user friendly interface for SFX archiving...

[vyper]

Cool, the guy who did bzip works at Glasgow Uni.

[Stealth]

ok thanksguys

[Taristin]

Originally posted by Xelion


That compression software is commercial grade and would be hard to get online. Try Kazaa or contacting one of those dudes that does that stuff

Is that the UART or whatever it's called that can compress gigabytes into *0Mb?

[TopAce]

Put all files into an ARJ. Put the ARJ into a ZIP. And put the ZIP into a RAR. . . .

Just kiddin'.

[JC Denton]

Originally posted by an0n
No, not ACE. There's a one they use that extracts using a DOS window.

Nono, that's the ARJ format.  ACE has a GUI program (WinACE) for archive manipulation.

Though, there's a plugin for WinZip that lets it open ARJ files...but why would anyone need that, since Winrar and WinAce already have native support for it?

[diamondgeezer]

Originally posted by an0n
No, not ACE. There's a one they use that extracts using a DOS window.

You thinking of the one that the ripped Renegade* came in? Claimed to be some uber industrial-strength compressor and indeed, the entire Renegade package was zipped down to about 250mb...


*This is not to say that I downloaded the rip. Seriously.