Questions tagged [file-compression]
Software that compresses or shrinks the file size of other files (or interacts with other software doing so).
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Reed-Solomon encoder/decoder
Do you know any free software performing real Reed-Solomon coding/decoding? Or maybe a library that can be utilized to encode and/or decode files with Reed-Solomon algorithm?
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Open source archiver with integrated Error Correction Code
Is there an open source archiver with integrated error correction code? (preferably windows 7, linux is ok, too)
presently the most stable procedure for me seems to be archiving with 7z and then ...
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What tools are available for managed file transfer?
I'm looking for some good examples of Managed File Transfer tools.
This is in an enterprise / corporate setting, where we wish to automate some recurring file transfer tasks. Our bunch of cobbled ...
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Program that zips a group of files into sized chunks, each openable individually
I am looking for a Windows program that can zip a large group of files up and save them to multiple zip files, each (say) no more than 100 MB.
It is critical however that any single zipfile can be ...
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Parallelized compression libraries with API
I have written a C application which uses libbzip2 to compress and extract some statistical data.
The extraction times are excessive for large-scale datasets. Therefore, I am looking for C or C++ ...
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Lossless compressing software that grants best compression ratio for everyday purpose and/or for specific tasks
Hello there everybody.
My question should be rather simple for "insiders" (or I hope so at least), so here is the matter: as far as I know and understand, 7zip is currently the best lossless ...
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GUI software to compress and merge PDFs
Compress PDF and Merge PDF are fantastically easy to use. I would highly recommend them had it not been because I cannot guarantee who has access to the data.
So is there free (as in freedom) ...
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Batch script or program to extract RARs and then delete the RAR
I sometimes download libraries of files of the format:
/library/sublib1/item1/item1.r01
/library/sublib1/item1/item1.r02
/library/sublib1/item1/item1.rar
/library/sublib1/item2/item2.r01
/library/...
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Command line PDF image compression optimizer
It doesn't necessarily have to be CMD but I'd prefer it. It has to be free though.
I have tried lots of different ones but all of them seem to optimize some bit data within the PDFs and don't even ...
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Application that shows rar-archives as normal files
Does anyone know of a software that allows mapping whole folders/drives (not just one archive) and show rar/zip/..-archive content as plain files?
To be used with for example Plex as they removed ...
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API for creating/uncompressing zip files, ANSI C compatible and used in Windows applications
This is a first question on this StackExchange site, please let me know if my question is off-topic, and if so, which of the sites would be more appropriate.
I am looking for an API that can be used ...
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Program to determine the lowest quality encoding a music file went through
I sometimes get some .wav files that might have been converted from low-quality MP3 (e.g. 128 kbps). I am looking for a program to determine/estimate the lowest quality encoding a music file went ...
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Software to compress files in Windows [duplicate]
I need a software to compress files in my Windows system. It should -
be light weight,
compress any type of files,
fast,
free,
allow the maximum compression.
Which is a good one of my needs ?
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Node.js ZPAQ lib (or if none any other JavaScript ZPAQ implementation)
I'm looking for a JavaScript implementation or wrapper for the ZPAQ archive format.
Requirements:
Strong Preference: Node.js addon.
Preferably: a Grunt addon but I'm really not expecting someone to ...
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Command-line tool for lossless JPEG compression and optimization for Ubuntu
I am looking for a command line lossless JPEG compression tool which will have the following functionality:
be a command line tool with no GUI interface
I can provide list of folders (where my ...
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Dearchiver that can "intelligently" decide whether to extract into a new folder or not
Am I the only one who gets annoyed by these two related problems when extracting downloaded archives:
I "extract here", which means all the contents of the archive will be dumped into the current ...
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Do any archive manager programs allow browsing hidden files in .iso's? [closed]
I am on Windows 7 and looking for a tool to view hidden files inside ISO images. I have tried two archive packages (WinRAR and 7-Zip) and have tried mounting the image but to no avail. What should ...
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Very space-efficient freeware file compressor
Can you please recommend me a lossless file compressor for general use, which is the more space-efficient than standard ZIP compression? Of course, the better it compresses, the better…
It should ...
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