@Interstellar_1@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world • edit-26 hours agoMost many file types are just a renamed .zipmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up174arrow-down118
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minus-square@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish28•edit-23 hours agoAKA “Why zip doesn’t compress things much any more”.
minus-squareLostXORlinkfedilink3•3 hours agoI see images, audio, or video files distributed in zips far too often. You’re getting maybe a percent of compression if you’re lucky; just distribute the raw files or use a non-compressed bundle format like tar.
minus-square@pixeltree@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilink1•29 minutes agotar -xzvf filename With a bad pretend accent: Xtract Zee Vucking File
minus-square@AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•5 hours agoZipping a file repeatedly typically doesn’t reduce the size further after the first time.
AKA “Why zip doesn’t compress things much any more”.
I see images, audio, or video files distributed in zips far too often. You’re getting maybe a percent of compression if you’re lucky; just distribute the raw files or use a non-compressed bundle format like tar.
But then,
tar -xzvf filename
With a bad pretend accent:
Xtract
Zee
Vucking
File
?
Zipping a file repeatedly typically doesn’t reduce the size further after the first time.
Yeah duoy you [realistically] can’t compress compressed data…