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There are a few videos encoded in ASM that manage to fit several minutes in 64kB!http://www.theproduct.de/
Make an algorithm which can losslessly reduce the size of any file by JUST ONE BYTE and you'll become a trillionaire.
Wonder if they are using something like KGB Archiver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB_Archiver). This archiver can shrink 1GB to 1-10MB but man you are going to spend a good chunk of a day decompressing it
Quote from: ANTALIFE on August 06, 2018, 04:49:34 amWonder if they are using something like KGB Archiver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB_Archiver). This archiver can shrink 1GB to 1-10MB but man you are going to spend a good chunk of a day decompressing itNo. You can't compress any random 1 GB file to, say, 10 MB. Some files will compress others will not. It just happens in a lot of cases that files we wish to compress (e.g. text) are easily compressed.
Quote from: ANTALIFE on August 06, 2018, 04:49:34 amWonder if they are using something like KGB Archiver (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KGB_Archiver). This archiver can shrink 1GB to 1-10MB but man you are going to spend a good chunk of a day decompressing itNo. You can't compress any random 1 GB file to, say, 10 MB. Some files will compress others will not. It just happens in a lot of cases that files we wish to compress (e.g. text) are easily compressed.I don't think KGB Archiver was ever a big thing. It's reported as being very memory demanding at 256 MB, which probably means that no one has run this program in a decade. If you are looking for a modern, powerful, memory hungry compression method then Bzip2 is a good candidate:http://www.bzip.org/
They resurrected a scam from the dial-up modem days?