I am wanting to compress video, audio and software into archives so Which archive application has the highest amount of compression and is a good archive app overall?
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best application to compress a bunch of files into an archive?
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If the video and the audio already use a high compression (H264 or Divx or Xvid for video, MP3 or AAC for audio), you will not get much smaller files by compressing them again.
Have you tried Mac OS X' built in Compress feature?
Have you tried Mac OS X' built in Compress feature?
Unfortunately the files I am working with are a real mixed bag besides the formats you mentioned some of the video is mkv and some of the audio is flac so due to the fact these files are rather large by nature a decent compression tool would help if there is one better than Apple's built in one.
Zipping, making a compressed disk image or even a RAR archive isn't going to compress them any more than they already are, no matter the compression, unless converting them with a lossy method. They're already losslessly compressed; there are no more bits to discard.