freakboy wrote:I would not recommend compressing isos, because there are users who do not know how to use all these fancy programs. They have daemon tools installed and speak only their native non English language. Even loosing tens of megabytes is not worth it.
That's absolutely right. It was ok back in the days where webspace was kinda rare and bandwith was small. I think everyone who wants to download an ISO nowadays will not care for 50MB extra just to save himself the trouble of unpacking and possible messed up contents.
Imagine the time it takes to (i.e.) ecm and ISO and then RAR it up with maximum compression... on my computer I think I'm faster in uploading 50MB than in saving. Compression without compression ( ) doesn't even take 1/3rd of the time.
I've stopped using ecm as well, with 132kb/s up and only about 5-7 minutes for any iso (dvd is not counted here) to max compress in winrar or 7zip. It's just not worth it anymore.
Right... if I'm not mistaken, the last change in algorithm was while introducing v3.0. Would be awesome if they had something better. Well, I still prefer free tools but in the end, (win)rar is some nice-to-handle tool
I use both. 7-Zip for general images and WinRAR for the ones with audio tracks.
Due to the fact that 7z format doesn't support recovery record, I also use WinRAR in the case that I will upload the file to online storage sites.
However, I don't know what to do with WinRAR's advanced compression parameters, I follow a guide I read years ago on a PC magazine but have no idea whether it is the best. Does anyone know how to change this setting to archive best result?
) doesn't even take 1/3rd of the time.
