Top "Compression" questions

The name given to the process of encoding data such that it uses lesser number of bits as compared to the original representation.

Any theoretical limit to compression?

Imagine that you had all the supercomputers in the world at your disposal for the next 10 years. Your task was …

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Compression algorithm for JSON encoded packets?

What would be the best compression algorithm to use to compress packets before sending them over the wire? The packets …

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Redshift COPY command for Parquet format with Snappy compression

I have datasets in HDFS which is in parquet format with snappy as compression codec. As far as my research …

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Compress Videos using android MediaCodec api

I want to compress locally saved video file to a smaller size in order to upload to a server. Since …

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Server-side video conversion and compression

I want to provide an automatic video-converter for my CMS-customers. They should be able to upload their "untouched" video-files (MP4, …

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What're lzo and lzf, and the differences?

Hi I heard of lzo and lzf and seems they are all compression algorithms. Are they the same thing? Are …

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MsgPack for compressing json data, why not using gzip/deflate?

I heard something about MsgPack that can be used for compressing json messages, but I have a question about that, …

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zipping files with the same name in different folders using 7z @listfile feature

I want to create a 7zip file containing files with the same names but in different folders using 7zip's @listfile …

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How to zip a WordprocessingML folder into readable docx

I have been trying to write a simple Markdown -> docx parser/writer, but am completely stuck with the …

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GZIPOutputStream: Increase compression level

java.util.zip.GZIPOutputStream does not provide a constructor argument or a setter for the compression level of its underlying …

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