Masked Compression (Ultimate compression in one go)

[panker1992]

~~~~~~~~~~~{Intro}~~~~~~~~~~~

In compression its all about algorithms
there are tons of algorithms that are suited all for a specific different purpose

this project is all about utilizing the correct compressor on specific type of files thus gaining the upper hand on compression and decompression

(example) there are types of data that compress better or doesnt compress at all
so why use lzma or even reflate and precomp even if you gain nothing from doing so ??

masked compression will use specific compressors per file types
it will gather all text files using extensions *.ini *.rtf *.txt
and it will perform the right compressor to compress the better of them

the same will happen with movies files and precomp file
in the latter using precomp.exe to process only files that benefit from it
on movies zstd will be used for maximum decompression

~~~~~~~~~~~{Tiny SFX Packing}~~~~~~~~~~~

1)Choose you Program or Game make sure it is small to begin with
: Tiny Tools cannot support large number of Files
2) Put it inside Tiny_SFX_Compressor.bat and choose whatever compression method you want
: As I said all works Including Precomp, you can leave it as is its very Optimal
3) Run the bat and wait for magic
4) after you have the data.bin run make sfx.bat
5) the exe that is produced is ready to work without anything it will automatically Unpack whatever method i have provided so far
6) This tool is provided as is, it worked for me and i gladly share, further than that i cant guarantee that it work for you!!!

~~~~~~~~~~~{Bik, Bk2 Re-encoding}~~~~~~~~~~~

Read the Readme.log i provided, it has everything you need to know


~~~~~~~~~~~{Update log}~~~~~~~~~~~

[Update 1]

Added new Zstd Compressor for windows, I splited this into 2 different compression settings
Zstd ultra compression = srep + zstd used a pipeline and offer great compression similar to lzma2 max and even bypass ultra on >5gb files
Zstd fast compression = pure zstd offering very very fast compression ideal for fast travel data
Important: If you used my previous tools, you need to download Zstd Ultra Compression to maintain support,
all your data that you have already compressed by this tool will be usable only with this option

[Masked Compression 2.5]

masks 2.5 are here but this time a minor release

1) third mask was beta last time, now it aint ...it works out of the box with great success

2)precomp 038 remade, and optimized from scratch, precomp 0.38 is custom
and it is faster than all other precomp, on my test precomp 0.45 took 9 minues almost
and precomp0.38 took 5 minutes and 35 seconds ( test file was 700 mb file )

precomp038 set to slow mode and prrecomp 0.43 for brute mode, more of this in arc.ini

3) legacy2 works again since precomp038 is added again

4) msc is disabled, but you can enable it yourself, i did a proper test with this and reflate doesnt work with msc

plus the ratio was increased and not decreased (if you dont believe me i can post results and you can always test yourself)

5) zstd doesnt work with my config anymore... it took errors i had to reformat entire pc and again didnt ( that was enough for me to cast it aside tho i left the sonido )
and the option for you to re-enable it

6) msrsolid mask and void mask are better optimized !!!

Masked Compression Archive Added including all masks up to 2.5

Masked Compression x86 Support

Masked Compression Manual
Stay tuned



~~~~~~~~~~~{Special Thanks}~~~~~~~~~~~

Special thanks to Razor for reflate and Inno(WPI) and Gozarck for his inspiration and tweaks