I am useing virtualhub. What is the best one to compress with because i want to get it really small.
Thank-you

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WinRAR, or Winzip

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Catsby suggests winace.

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7Zip

Are you talking about video? Try Divx or XVid.

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7ZIP > *

well...except...

UHAC, or something like that. I'm serious, I downloaded a "file" that was 1 gig, compressed to 240 megs. Wow. And it wasn't mostly text

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Word.

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For anything that I want to compress the hell out of, I usually use WinRAR. For some of the DAOC stuff I've made, I've had to use massive 24-bit 2048x2048 images, which come out to a little over 16 megs. WinRAR compresses them to about half the size that Winzip does. A file with 4 of those images and a few XML files compresses down to about 20 megs, depending on the exact contents of the image. Since stuff like large areas of a solid color compress more highly than a very diverse image.

I've heard of something called UHarc (which is probably what yoshi was talking about) that lets you compress stuff incredibly small. you then decompress using a batch file.

I backed up my vice city install (well over 1 GB) as a test and uharc was able to compress it down to the range of 300 mb.

Definitely worth checking out.

http://www.softpedia.com/public/cat/2/2-41.shtml

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[This message has been edited by Pagewizard_YKS (edited June 08, 2004).]

Of course you said Virtualhub, and since there's no program in existence to my knowledge, I'll assume you meant Virtualdub and are wanting to compress video.

If so, then definitely download the DiVX codec and use Virtualdub to compress the video as DiVX. And if there's audio, you can use AC3, Ogg Vorbis, MP3, etc, though sometimes getting audio to work correctly can be a major pain.

get imtoo dvd ripper 2.0 or Dr. Divx if you want to rip and compress video.

Audio is a b**** to get working with divx, and i've been majorly pissed in the past when a dvd rip that I spent an hour encoding turned out to have no audio track.

The two aforementioned programs take care of that for you.




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Old aunts used to come up to me at weddings, poking me in the ribs and cackling, telling me, "You're next." They stopped after I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

I use Tmpgenc, and save as AVI instead of outputting to MPEG. Divx for video and MP3 for audio. Works like a charm



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UHARC > You

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