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imrock · 07-05-09, 05:22 PM

so any1 isn't there???

07-05-09, 05:23 PM

nope

07-05-09, 06:32 PM

What happened to your last compression ? Was that a success ? If completed, please let know the size.

power_downloader · 07-05-09, 08:12 PM

I downloaded Munna Bhai MBBS which was just 1 mb. And when I tried to decompress it .... it says 1533 hrs remaining

.
Surely this app is a waste of time .I can download the same file in an hour.
Kgb will be used some day as a general purpose archiever....may be 10-20 yrs later !

7-zip gives strong AES-256 encryption for both 7z and ZIP formats.
And 7-Zip compresses to zip format 2-10% better than most of other zip programs.So even if I compress to zip format I use 7-zip because it gives better compression.

07-05-09, 08:19 PM

Heard of 7zip, never tired. Is it a good one ? I have WinRAR and Winzip.

07-05-09, 08:42 PM

7-zip and winrar are more or less equal in compression ratio, thing is that 7-zip is free.

Dictionary size is a paramater which can vary the amount of compression.
In winrar the maximum allowable size is 4096 Kb (4 Mb) , while in 7-zip its possible to have a maximum of 64 Mb.

SO under some cases this causes significant compression in 7-zip format.

However for normal compression purposes, both provide same compression.

Quote:

Dictionary size
Specifies Dictionary size for compression method.

Usually, a higher Dictionary size gives a higher compression ratio. But compressing can be slower and it can require more memory.

Memory (RAM) usage for LZMA compressing is about 11 times more than dictionary size. Memory usage for LZMA decompressing is close to value of dictionary size. Memory usage for PPMd compressing and decompressing is almost equal to dictionary size.

Word size
Specifies the length of words, which will be used to find identical sequences of bytes for compression.

Usually for LZMA and Deflate, big Word size gives a little bit better compression ratio and slower compression process. A big Word size parameter can significantly increase compression ratio for files which contain long identical sequences of bytes. For PPMd, the Word size strongly affects both compression ratio and compression/decompression speed.

For more details refer to 7-zip and winrar help.

07-05-09, 09:22 PM

Thanks for the info

Logik · 07-08-09, 02:40 PM

well have anyone read the read me file with kgb....it said there
Hardware requirements:

Essential minimum
Processor 1.5 GHz (32-bit)
RAM 256 MB
Free disk space 4 MB
Operating system Windows NT/2000/XP/2003
Recommended
Processor 3.0 GHz (64-bit)
RAM 1.5 GB
Free disk space 4 MB
Operating system Windows XP x64 SP1/2003 x64 SP1

so this is all stuff best for x64.....mind it

07-08-09, 03:10 PM

the processor spec if lamest part in that case, dunno if thy mean P3 or p4 or C@D or C i7,5,3 or cell processor or some supercomputer's processor ?

Logik · 07-08-09, 03:54 PM

well NPU this is totally geek software....no wonder the specs are confusing

funnyguys · 08-28-09, 01:49 PM

hey pls guide me to compress file in kgb

mickey · 08-28-09, 01:54 PM

i am unable to archive using kgb.. and my antivir shown it as a virus..(

Archer · 08-28-09, 05:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by funnyguys

hey pls guide me to compress file in kgb

If it's version 2 beta then, open KGB archiver, browse to the folder or file you need to compress, right click the file and select Compress.

Increasing compression level also increases the time takes to compress the file and the RAM memory used

Add more files or folders if you need using files to compress tab
SFX option allows you create self extraction archives which will extract the files or folder to windows TEMP folder or a folder you choose and run an executable (.exe) file if you need. This will only work if you have selected the option in General tab
And wait for the compression processes to finish

Quote:

Originally Posted by mickey

i am unable to archive using kgb.. and my antivir shown it as a virus..(

KGB Archiver is an open-source software. I have installed both versions and didn't find any problems. It's a false positive. KGB Archiver version 1 is clean.

meetdilip · 08-28-09, 06:10 PM

Good one

......................

Archer · 08-28-09, 07:33 PM

I am still confused. I have seen game/OS files with a file size of Giga Bytes compressed in to a megabyte or less. And they were in .zip format not .kgb. The downloaded files were working perfectly. So they were not fake.

I tried to compress the same file in KGB Archiver in maximum setting and the result was a files size of 100 MB or more. I even tried to rename the .kgb files to .zip files and that didn't work either. How is this possible ? Is there any other way or software to compress files like that ?

Quote:

Originally Posted by meetdilip

Good one

......................

Thanks Dilip.

Rcom · 08-29-09, 01:18 AM

nothing personal but what is the need of that time wasting compression S/W? and too when storage media is so cheap.

Archer · 08-29-09, 01:32 AM

Storage media is cheap, but Internet is not. Imagine if you can compress a 2 GB file into a 1 or even 10 MB file. Then you can upload/download the file in minutes/seconds and with very little data transfer.

PS, It's hard to not believe after seeing this kind of compression in action many times. So far all the results are leading to KGB Archiver or 7 Zip, but I am going to keep searching.

just4kix · 08-29-09, 01:35 AM

I was initially excited by the KGB archiver. But the product does not work - or rather - it will require a massively parallel architecture based super computer.

SledgeHammer · 08-29-09, 10:11 AM

How much (approx.) time will it take to compress a 4 GB file ?

I tried de-compressing a 4 GB and it took less than 1 min on my 1 GB PC.

imrock · 08-29-09, 10:41 AM

surely this software depends upon RAM.if u have more memory then u can compress faster otherwise it will tell thousands of hours.

For eg. my pc has 1GB RAM and i can't compress using maximum rate.
and i tried in a 3GB laptop i compressed at maximum rate and it told only 30 mins.

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