hey im trying to zip a 39GB file to make it smaller so i can transfer it to my desktop but when i zipped it with the inbuilt compress it didnt make it any smaller im running ubuntu gnome 15.10
Well if you want a GUI you can try PeaZip.
http://www.peazip.org/peazip-linux.html
Peazip – A Portable File Manager and Archive Tool for Linux
OR you can just use the terminal.zip filename.zip filename
of course replace filename with whatever you are trying to compress.
I would recommend reading the man pages.man zip if you don't mind the reading.
Hope that helps you.
7zip or gzip for modern use.
This is just a friendly reminder that some file formats will not get much or any smaller. if the file format that it is already a natively compressed format then there may be nothing more you can do. Video files are an example of this a H.264 file is a compressed format already or some Installer files for instance are also compressed along with ISO files.
so i cant compress mp4 files any smaller then what they are now? if so then fuck ive got to figure out how to make a ftp server on my laptop and copy it over
Uhmm.. p7zip.. heres the deal.. I would go lzma two and i would tweak as many compression settings at possible so that it uses nearly 95 percent of your system resources. That will result in the best compression for size. keep in mind something this large will take a lot to decompress too
You can reencode it to h265 or something similar and make the file smaller. keep resolution. toss the bit rate for audio down. and you shouldnt see much loss but you may see some smaller size. Also you can compress it just not very much. Go ahead and try though
Heres my recommendation
Archive format (your choice... 7z is fine)
Compression level MAXIMUM or ULTRA
Method: LZMA2
Dictionary size : 128 if you have enough memory or 96 if you dont
Word size: 64 or as high as you can go past that
CPU threads : 2 anything more than that starts chunking and hurting compression size.
Solid block size.. default
Not through a compression software like 7zip or gzip. I would use VLC to do a second render on the file where you decrease the bitrate also how long is the video and what resolution is it?
its game of thrones season 1 to 4 all episodes 1080p
well you may also need to break that up to smaller chunks as that is a lot of video in and of itself.
Compression works by finding repetitive patterns in a given size chunk. Things like video compressed with h264 will not compress well because the codec has already reduced those repetitive chunks when the file was created.
Sadly there's not a great way to compress encoded video since the encoder essentially does the same thing a traditional archival software does.