WinZip is also great for securing your video materials.
Usually, 7-Zip compresses to 7z format 30-70 better than to zip format. Compression ratio results are very dependent upon the data used for the tests. FILE SETS: Mozilla Firefox 34.0.5 for Windows and Google Earth 6. Feel free to compress your favorite videos in various format types such as MP4, AVI, MKV, WMV, MP3, DVD. Compression ratio We compared 7-Zip with WinRAR 5.20. I'd have lots of fun coding one, but I bet someone already did and will save me 2 days.Īlternatively, of course, anything that'll take all pictures in a folder and recompress them with a fixed quality level (say, 40) will also work, it'll just not make my inner nerd as happy, but it'll solve my problem just fine. To compress video files, you just have to open WinZip, select the files, click Add to Zip, select where you want to save your zip file, and you’re done. Or even try whether PNG is a better option, many times it is, for "drawing" type stuff. Obviously, "optimal lossy compression setting" is an oxymoron, but I'm thinking maybe a tool that'll try different levels and compare the outputs to the input, and choose a "sweet spot" between size and destruction? I'm looking for some kind of tool that'll take a folder full of JPG pictures and will recompress them to their "optimal" compression value.
The homepage weighs in at 1.5 Mb currently, and it could easily be way less that half that. I'm maintaining a site that has thousands of images that have not been compressed nearly enough.