The Fifth Horseman |
09-09-2009 06:32 AM |
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Originally Posted by Acethor
(Post 382277)
What is your problem? You're not helping me at all - it seems like you are just trying to prove that WinRAR is the greatest thing in the world.
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What he pointed out is that instead of lossless compression of images, Miliki employs lossy compression. Which basically means that if you compresss, say, a bunch of pictures with it and unpack them later, you will find out they were recompressed by the program - and thus degraded compared to the original. :oh:
Let me quote the blurb from the website:
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With Miliki, you can select your preferred image quality for visually lossless compression of your digital photos.
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What that sentence amounts to is "you can choose how badly Miliki can deteriorate your images without you noticing or giving a damn".
They're counting that the users don't know that true meaning of lossless compression is being able to restore the full source data without any degradation or damage to it.
That means the only selling point of Miliki is in fact achieved solely because the program degrades the image data on purpose rather than because it uses any efficient compression algorithms. :oh:
Whether you find that acceptable or not I leave up to you.
All other compression programs employ lossles compression - the archive file size may be greater, but when you unpack the files you will always get exactly the same content as you have compressed in the first place.
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