ZIPslim was updated to v0.99 today! What's new:
- 7-ZIP module updated (please delete/rename ZIPslim.ini to reinstall)
- Fix for resuming when BestBlock was larger than 16!
- Added short Legend
- Changed KSflating display a bit (now it's Kzip). It features Real Time updating of number of MaxBlocks/MaxPass, BestBlock and Compression Ratio.
You can download it at: http://freya.neostrada.pl
Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Updated 7-ZIP for ZIPslim
I did update 7-ZIP for ZIPslim. To update you would need to rename ZIPslim.ini to something else and delete apps directory, run ZIPslim and wait for it to reinstall itself. Delete new ZIPslim.ini and rename back your old ini file to ZIPslim.ini
or you can install it manually by extracting:
http://freya.neostrada.pl/7z.cab to your apps directory.
Please NOTE! There is no 7za.exe x64 version currently available... If you have x64 system you will need to use x86 version. It's only used for extracting and compressing once per optimization so I think it's OK for now.
or you can install it manually by extracting:
http://freya.neostrada.pl/7z.cab to your apps directory.
Please NOTE! There is no 7za.exe x64 version currently available... If you have x64 system you will need to use x86 version. It's only used for extracting and compressing once per optimization so I think it's OK for now.
7-ZIP, Lame and OptiPNG
Last week I did compile another 3 programs for Linux ARM to use on ZyXEL NSA-210, NSA-220 or D-Link DND-323 (or other, similar where fun_plug can be applied)
OptiPNG is very good to optimize PNG images or convert BMP, GIF etc to PNG. You can pick how many tries you want it to perform to optimize the image resulting in smaller filesize... It works quite fast on Marvell 500mhz!
You most likely know what 7-ZIP is? It's one of the best compression programs used nowadays. Actually you can use it to the fullest on PC with at least 2GB RAM. Here, on NSA-220 you may be limited by RAM this device has, only 128MB. So most likely maximum dictionary size would be 4MB in this case. Still, It can be very good for compressing to ZIP, it doesn't have as good algorithm as K-ZIP has but it's still enough to win against WinRAR's ZIP.
Last thing is Lame. It's a command line MP3 Encoder. It has very good psy filters so you get very good quality MP3 files even at standard, 128kbps bitrate. Unfortunately it's not very good idea to use it on ARM processor due to emulated floating point calculations, and this program uses it a lot. You will get very low speed here. On Marvell 500mhz you will need to wait (play_duration)*8, so if you have a track that has 3 min duration, you will need to wait 24 min for ZyXEL to get it to MP3 at default settings. It's a lot of time! But sure, If You leave it ON at night and, we know that, nobody uses it then You can compress whole CD then =D
Please NOTE! Running those tools on Network File Server will reduce file Reading/Writing speed to 0.5-1.5MB/s until the program finishes. It's due to the fact that it can't use its CPU for I/O operations.
Everything can be downloaded from: http://freya.neostrada.pl
OptiPNG is very good to optimize PNG images or convert BMP, GIF etc to PNG. You can pick how many tries you want it to perform to optimize the image resulting in smaller filesize... It works quite fast on Marvell 500mhz!
You most likely know what 7-ZIP is? It's one of the best compression programs used nowadays. Actually you can use it to the fullest on PC with at least 2GB RAM. Here, on NSA-220 you may be limited by RAM this device has, only 128MB. So most likely maximum dictionary size would be 4MB in this case. Still, It can be very good for compressing to ZIP, it doesn't have as good algorithm as K-ZIP has but it's still enough to win against WinRAR's ZIP.
Last thing is Lame. It's a command line MP3 Encoder. It has very good psy filters so you get very good quality MP3 files even at standard, 128kbps bitrate. Unfortunately it's not very good idea to use it on ARM processor due to emulated floating point calculations, and this program uses it a lot. You will get very low speed here. On Marvell 500mhz you will need to wait (play_duration)*8, so if you have a track that has 3 min duration, you will need to wait 24 min for ZyXEL to get it to MP3 at default settings. It's a lot of time! But sure, If You leave it ON at night and, we know that, nobody uses it then You can compress whole CD then =D
Please NOTE! Running those tools on Network File Server will reduce file Reading/Writing speed to 0.5-1.5MB/s until the program finishes. It's due to the fact that it can't use its CPU for I/O operations.
Everything can be downloaded from: http://freya.neostrada.pl
Friday, June 18, 2010
JPEGoptim for ZyXEL NSA-220 funplug
Yesterday I did compile JPEGoptim v1.2.3 by Tomo Kokkonen directly on ZyXEL NSA-220 by using pendrive with funplug installed. It's special fun_plug ARM version to run directly on you NAS server (ZyXEL NSA-210 and D-Link DNS-323 should be able to run it as well). That means you don't need PC to optimize your JPG files. You can then write a script that will scan for JPG files once a week and optimize them by deleting useless junk they can contain. That's great way to use your energy efficient Marvell 500mhz CPU (250mhz incase of NSA-210) to optimize files.
more at http://freya.neostrada.pl
more at http://freya.neostrada.pl
Sunday, June 13, 2010
ZIPslim
This time I was working on some Visual Basic Script. The idea came from Andrew C.E. Dent's PNGslim script that optimizes PNG files.
ZIPslim in progress:
Actually I wrote testkzip script before discovering Andrew's invention. It was not open to public and It was simple and buggy (not really that much but still). It was based on my test script (similar to PNGslim but used only pngout and deflopt resulting in files being larger that one produced by his script).
At the beginning of this month I said to myself "how about doing something similar to PNGslim" but when I viewed his cmd file I thought "I'm sick of this cmd based script that isn't really programming language". Then I got an idea to write this in pure VBScript using few cmd commands (like dir or md) because of lazyness. =P
So I did the prototype and then I mainly converted my testkzip.cmd script there fixing few bugs. Guess what? It did optimize ZIP files pretty well (faster than cmd version), although it did support only one file inside zip and crashed on directories a lot =D
I think I got addicted to VBs again (previously I did Visual MinShare for DC Hub from NeoModus when I was 15 years old - almost 10 years ago). I can't stop adding things, everything that comes to my mind needs to be put there... be it at home, friend's house or even at work =)
Basically it's so automated that it even downloads and installs all necessary files directly from the internet (don't be scared when some window pop-ups while installing, it DOES NO HARM to your computer and it's necessary for things to run smooth and fast). It's at v0.97 by now (starting from v0.90) and can not only process ZIP files. It additionally accepts JAR, JPG, PNG and BMP files, all thanks to those people that worked hard to reduce every bit of uneccessary information, BIG THANKS!
You can download it at http://freya.neostrada.pl for free !
Don't forget to visit http://freya.neostrada.pl/ZIPslim-ip.txt to get information what programs are used to gain such cool results!
PLEASE! Report all bugs here as commets, Thanks!
Mr_KrzYch00
~~~~~~~~~~~
ZIPslim in progress:
Actually I wrote testkzip script before discovering Andrew's invention. It was not open to public and It was simple and buggy (not really that much but still). It was based on my test script (similar to PNGslim but used only pngout and deflopt resulting in files being larger that one produced by his script).
At the beginning of this month I said to myself "how about doing something similar to PNGslim" but when I viewed his cmd file I thought "I'm sick of this cmd based script that isn't really programming language". Then I got an idea to write this in pure VBScript using few cmd commands (like dir or md) because of lazyness. =P
So I did the prototype and then I mainly converted my testkzip.cmd script there fixing few bugs. Guess what? It did optimize ZIP files pretty well (faster than cmd version), although it did support only one file inside zip and crashed on directories a lot =D
I think I got addicted to VBs again (previously I did Visual MinShare for DC Hub from NeoModus when I was 15 years old - almost 10 years ago). I can't stop adding things, everything that comes to my mind needs to be put there... be it at home, friend's house or even at work =)
Basically it's so automated that it even downloads and installs all necessary files directly from the internet (don't be scared when some window pop-ups while installing, it DOES NO HARM to your computer and it's necessary for things to run smooth and fast). It's at v0.97 by now (starting from v0.90) and can not only process ZIP files. It additionally accepts JAR, JPG, PNG and BMP files, all thanks to those people that worked hard to reduce every bit of uneccessary information, BIG THANKS!
You can download it at http://freya.neostrada.pl for free !
Don't forget to visit http://freya.neostrada.pl/ZIPslim-ip.txt to get information what programs are used to gain such cool results!
PLEASE! Report all bugs here as commets, Thanks!
Mr_KrzYch00
~~~~~~~~~~~
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
Watching HD movies on Asus UL20A
INFO! I don't have this notebook anymore. It was given away but I heard it's still working pretty much ok.
Today I was trying to watch some HDTV and Full HD movies (Anime actually).
HDTV x264 ones performed quite well. CPU usage was ~20% and sometimes went to ~50% but I was using VMR9 render that is not very fast but i could test subtitles...
Next was FullHD one... That was quite a task for this 1.3ghz c2d cpu... Without subtitiles, when Overlay Mixer was used the movie didn't drop any frames, not bad here but I don't know so much japanese to understand everything =P
So i tried loading subtitiles on VMR9 render... WOW! I got sideshow, it was like 2 frames per second, you can't watch that! So I tried this:
- selecting EVR custom pres and set EVR Buffers to 45... I got smoother video now but sometimes it hanged for a while to load to buffer so I changed from full screen to windowed mode and for some reason it didn't skip any frame then... I would need to retest that few times to make sure what are the best setting for it to play smoothly.
I used external display with 1920x1200 32bit resolution to play the movie.
Today I was trying to watch some HDTV and Full HD movies (Anime actually).
HDTV x264 ones performed quite well. CPU usage was ~20% and sometimes went to ~50% but I was using VMR9 render that is not very fast but i could test subtitles...
Next was FullHD one... That was quite a task for this 1.3ghz c2d cpu... Without subtitiles, when Overlay Mixer was used the movie didn't drop any frames, not bad here but I don't know so much japanese to understand everything =P
So i tried loading subtitiles on VMR9 render... WOW! I got sideshow, it was like 2 frames per second, you can't watch that! So I tried this:
- selecting EVR custom pres and set EVR Buffers to 45... I got smoother video now but sometimes it hanged for a while to load to buffer so I changed from full screen to windowed mode and for some reason it didn't skip any frame then... I would need to retest that few times to make sure what are the best setting for it to play smoothly.
I used external display with 1920x1200 32bit resolution to play the movie.
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Asus UL20A
INFO! I don't have this notebook anymore. It was given away but I heard it's still working pretty much ok.
Oh WOW I wanted to do 'comming soon' things but hey... I got owned by real life. That thing really took my spare time away from me )=
Oh, well... I just got myself Asus UL20A notebook! That's like 12.1 inch, core2duo 1.3ghz CULV, 250GB HD with a lot of other things inside. Despite description it contains 5600mAh battery (instead of 2800mAh) and bluetooth (that also is not stated in the description in certain stores) - or was I just that lucky to get better version for the same price???
Anyway, I was running few tests here. Especially I was really concerned about how much power this thing takes from my wall socket (or battery). On 1920x1200 external display with wireless mouse (2.4G), keyboard and lan cable plugged in it took only 6Watts in idle WOW (Eee 901 took minimum of 4-4.5Watts /w display turned off completely)! But when harddrive started to move head(s) a little it went to 8-9Watts and if you run 7-zip benchmark it went up to 11.7Watts when my Eee 901, that took almost two times lower score, took 12.5Watts!!! Little atom along with its smaller chipset took more than c2d!
Anyway that's all tests so far. You get 40W charger (EeePC got 36W one) and the battery takes maximum of 25Watts from socket to charge... and I hope we can get some hueg battery replacements soon... since UnLimited series are MUUUUCH more powerful than any atom netbook and they take very low power (higher than Atom, but still).
Oh WOW I wanted to do 'comming soon' things but hey... I got owned by real life. That thing really took my spare time away from me )=
Oh, well... I just got myself Asus UL20A notebook! That's like 12.1 inch, core2duo 1.3ghz CULV, 250GB HD with a lot of other things inside. Despite description it contains 5600mAh battery (instead of 2800mAh) and bluetooth (that also is not stated in the description in certain stores) - or was I just that lucky to get better version for the same price???
Anyway, I was running few tests here. Especially I was really concerned about how much power this thing takes from my wall socket (or battery). On 1920x1200 external display with wireless mouse (2.4G), keyboard and lan cable plugged in it took only 6Watts in idle WOW (Eee 901 took minimum of 4-4.5Watts /w display turned off completely)! But when harddrive started to move head(s) a little it went to 8-9Watts and if you run 7-zip benchmark it went up to 11.7Watts when my Eee 901, that took almost two times lower score, took 12.5Watts!!! Little atom along with its smaller chipset took more than c2d!
Anyway that's all tests so far. You get 40W charger (EeePC got 36W one) and the battery takes maximum of 25Watts from socket to charge... and I hope we can get some hueg battery replacements soon... since UnLimited series are MUUUUCH more powerful than any atom netbook and they take very low power (higher than Atom, but still).
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