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Releasing PAQCompress v0.6.1

Releasing PAQCompress v0.6.1

Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.6.1: This release adds the new compressor version paq8px v207. For the changes in this new paq8px version, click here. You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 14

Ongoing Updates to the paq8px_script.py script to compress files using PAQ8PX

Ongoing Updates to the paq8px_script.py script to compress files using PAQ8PX

Hi everyone, Over the past few days, I’ve revisited my old paq8px_script.py Python script that I wrote in order to compress files using the paq8px compressor. This script builds a file list that we can feed to paq8px so that it can compress multiple files and create an archive. I wrote an introductory post of this project back in 2018. An update I did in 2020 was to add multithreaded compression by making a paq8px archive per file. This is…

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Announcing PAQCompress v0.6.0

Announcing PAQCompress v0.6.0

Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.6.0: This is the first release in the 0.6.0 branch and brings an awesome new feature. It is now possible to compress a folder sorting its file content by File Path, File Name, or by Extension. PAQ is a compressor sensitive to the order of the files it compresses. This means that sometimes, you get the best compression ratio if similar files are placed together. This is what this new version attempts to…

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Releasing PAQCompress v0.5.18

Releasing PAQCompress v0.5.18

Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.5.18: This release adds the new compressor version paq8px v206. For the changes in this new paq8px version, click here. You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Happy New Year’s Eve! Post Views: 7

Releasing PAQCompress v0.5.17

Releasing PAQCompress v0.5.17

Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.5.17: This release adds the new compressor version paq8pxd v106. This compressor update provides the following change: You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 3

Releasing PAQCompress v0.5.16

Releasing PAQCompress v0.5.16

Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.5.16: This release adds the new compressor version paq8pxd v105. This compressor update provides the following change: You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 0

Releasing PAQCompress v0.5.15

Releasing PAQCompress v0.5.15

Hi everyone, Today, I have released PAQCompress v0.5.15: This release adds the new compressor version paq8px v205fix1. This compressor update provides the following change: On some files, paq8px v205fix1 may compress better than paq8px v205, and vice versa. For some benchmarks, you can check the results at the encode.su forum here. Starting with this release, PAQCompress will be released on a 7-zip Self-Extracting Archive. The reason for this change is to keep the download file size low. Compressing with ZIP…

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CMIX GUI v1.9 now available

CMIX GUI v1.9 now available

Hi everyone, Today, I have released CMIX GUI v1.9: This new version adds the cmix v19 compressor version released last month. cmix v19 brings the following improvement: For a benchmark and compression results on this new cmix version, check the cmix forum post at the encode.su forum here. You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 11

PAQCompress v0.5.14 now available

PAQCompress v0.5.14 now available

Hi everyone, This morning, I have released PAQCompress v0.5.14: This version adds the new PAQ8PX v205 compressor, which was released yesterday. PAQ8PX v205 brings the following enhancements: You can download this new version on GitHub by clicking here. Enjoy! Post Views: 1