Newbie Question Thread

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Thanks for the detailed reply.

I'm looking into this now and will run some compression tests.

EDIT: Compression test results -

(Pre)Compressors       Commands/Options            Compressed Size     Compression Time
     
Original 183 jpg files size - - - - - - - - - >    32,620,858

razorx                 xtool precomp -mrazorx      32,687,179                    31.001
xtool + lolz(std)      -mzlib+reflate              32,526,487                   135.073
xtool + lolz(std)      -mzlib+preflate             32,526,388                   132.572
xtool + lolz(std)      -mreflate                   32,525,512                   136.298
xtool + lolz(std)      -mpreflate                  32,525,336                   132.941
xtool + lolz(std)      -mzlib                      32,524,854                   132.349
precomp + mcm          -cn -brute + -x13           26,888,771                   226.509
precomp + razorx       -cn -brute + -mrazorx       26,817,498                    32.449
brunsli                                            26,740,253                     4.243
precomp + nanozip      -cn -brute + -co            26,669,251                    14.942
precomp + nanozip      -cn -brute + -cO            26,668,630                    14.602
precomp + nanozip      -cn -brute + -cc            26,662,387                   169.879
xtool + brunsli        -mbrunsli                   26,633,426                   100.867
precomp                -cl -brute                  26,631,038                     9.895
precomp + lolz(slow)   -cn -brute                  26,624,723                    31.563
precomp + lolz(std)    -cn -brute                  26,622,527                    33.496
lepton                                             26,350,606                    14.776
lepton-slow-best-ratio                             25,920,088                    17.905
xtool + packjpg        -mpackjpg                   25,850,839                   100.766
packjpg                -np -p                      25,826,134                    10.584
xtool + jojpeg         -mjojpeg                    25,678,421                   105.765
jojpeg                 c                           25,016,673                   129.041
fp8 v6                 -8                          24,445,243                   255.514

Note: lolz(std) means options for lolz as defined in arc.ini file. And lolz(slow) means options for lolzslow as defined in arc.ini file.