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  2. Data compression - Wikipedia

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    When audio files are to be processed, either by further compression or for editing, it is desirable to work from an unchanged original (uncompressed or losslessly compressed). Processing of a lossily compressed file for some purpose usually produces a final result inferior to the creation of the same compressed file from an uncompressed original.

  3. Lossless compression - Wikipedia

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    There are 2 N such files possible. Together with F, this makes 2 N +1 files that all compress into one of the 2 N files of length N. But 2 N is smaller than 2 N +1, so by the pigeonhole principle there must be some file of length N that is simultaneously the output of the compression function on two different inputs. That file cannot be ...

  4. Data compression ratio - Wikipedia

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    Thus, a representation that compresses the storage size of a file from 10 MB to 2 MB yields a space saving of 1 - 2/10 = 0.8, often notated as a percentage, 80%. For signals of indefinite size, such as streaming audio and video, the compression ratio is defined in terms of uncompressed and compressed data rates instead of data sizes:

  5. Lossy compression - Wikipedia

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    When data is compressed, its entropy increases, and it cannot increase indefinitely. For example, a compressed ZIP file is smaller than its original, but repeatedly compressing the same file will not reduce the size to nothing. Most compression algorithms can recognize when further compression would be pointless and would in fact increase the ...

  6. List of archive formats - Wikipedia

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    This means that compressed archives with the UC2 file extension can hold almost 1 million files. .uca PerfectCompress [17] Windows: Windows: No Based on PAQ, RZM, CSC, CCM, and 7zip. The format consists of a PAQ, RZM, CSC, or CCM compressed file and a manifest with compression settings stored in a 7z archive. .uha UHarc DOS/Windows: DOS/Windows ...

  7. Huffman coding - Wikipedia

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    In computer science and information theory, a Huffman code is a particular type of optimal prefix code that is commonly used for lossless data compression.The process of finding or using such a code is Huffman coding, an algorithm developed by David A. Huffman while he was a Sc.D. student at MIT, and published in the 1952 paper "A Method for the Construction of Minimum-Redundancy Codes".

  8. Solid compression - Wikipedia

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    One can combine these in two natural ways: compress the individual files, and then archive into a single file; archive into a single data block, and then compress. The order matters (these operations do not commute), and the latter is solid compression. In Unix, compression and archiving are traditionally separate operations, which allows one ...

  9. Lempel–Ziv–Markov chain algorithm - Wikipedia

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    In non-LZMA2 streams, lc must not be greater than 8, and lp and pb must not be greater than 4. In LZMA2 streams, ( lc + lp ) and pb must not be greater than 4. In the 7-zip LZMA file format, configuration is performed by a header containing the "properties" byte followed by the 32-bit little-endian dictionary size in bytes.