No way media compressed 5x.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025
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Maybe they store images as uncompressed .bmp for some reason
bmp should not compress more than other media files. jpeg, png, etc. can compress so much because they are lossy
Png is lossless
You're right. png can be lossy but that's uncommon in the wild.
The image doesn't look like a photo. The meme is about porn. Digital images can contain large areas of repeating patterns (uniform color areas for example) that can be compressed losslessly pretty well. Even slight noise from an image sensor can block that kind of compression.
With a picture from Unsplash:
ZIP compression of bmp is worse, but still compresses more than png. Here are the files.
Fascinating. That's much more than I expected. Thanks for taking the time.
Was thinking the same thing
Why are you surpried? It's actually possible. You just need so much computing power like around 64 GB ram and High End CPU to Pack and Unpack both.
Because modern media files are already compressed by default and have very little redundancy in them.
Seriously I don't know maybe you reverse search this.
OP’s computer
Ew, WinRAR.
WinRAR got me through some hard times. She might be filthy, but she did the job
She's proprietary nagware, and 7-Zip is better in every way.
Say truthfully, when you was 7 y.o kid, did you used fully open sourced OS then? I think everyone used winrar when they were kids/teenagers (before learning about foss)
I used winrar until I found out about 7 zip around 2003-4ish, but I still used 7z on windows back then tbf. Just using 7z and VLC on windows simply because they're better doesn't mean you have to be Stallman.
You didn't used winamp?
...shit honestly I used winsomething until 7z, but you got me I can't remember if it was -zip or -rar, damn similar names +20yr!
But in either case, "the rest."
You don't remember this brotha?
Guess I used winrar back then, 'cause no.
Hol' up is that a music player? Definitely no. For video it was VLC pretty early, WMP before that because it was preinstalled but the second it didn't play something and the advice searching gave was "vlc will play the file" I never went back. I don't remember what I used as a media player tbh, foobar for a while for sure but it was definitely something before that. Hmm, what the hell did I use?
..i think I may have just used the preinstalled WMP until VLC/foobar, huh. I did have a zune when those came around too and used that software, but mostly to interface with the device not play my library, then I did the registry edit so you didn't need that anymore, and I think I used foobar before that, definitely used vlc before.
I didn't discover 7-zip until 5th grade, so WinRAR always takes a spot in my heart <3.
I use Windows in-built extract
Is this lossless?
you can't compress most media files again, they don't get smaller that way as they're already compressed. you can't compress files again, that's against Shannon Information theory.
What if it's on a BTRFS --compress-force=zstd:22 compressed subvolume?
Do Windows people often see .xzs? Does anyone?