What is Reddit's opinion of FileOptimizer?

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Run your images through optimizers like TinyPNG or FileOptimizer. Also, make sure to load different sized images for different sized screens. You wouldn't want to load a full 4k image for mobile, for example.

Look into lazy loading images as well and see if it fits your needs.

on a raspberry pi 3: 1. Pihole 2. Apache Guacamole 3. A Discord Radio (Red Discordbot) 4. A nfs fileserver for music on an attached hard drive. 5. Netdata

On my big server: (Asus 32 Core, 196GB memory) 1. Proxmox as the OS with VMs for OS testing. 2. Netdata 3. A backup VM in case the pi ever goes out.

Small quad core mini-ITX file server: 1. Windows 10 with Storage spaces for everyone on the network to have a decently backed up network share. (This is turning into a btrfs ubuntu server machine soon.) 2. A job running to run File Optimizer on any new files thrown into a specific folder and then store them elsewhere. This is to attempt to save space, it's working okay.

My AMD Minecraft server: (8 core, 32 GBs memory) 1. Minecraft 2. Nginx webserver 3. Minecraft overviewer 4. Mapcrafter 5. Dynmap forge

The maps are autogenerated with a cron called bash script every few hours, the dynmap is always running, Minecraft largely takes care of itself. The maps are stored on a spinning disk, Minecraft itself and it's associated save is on an SSD.

I use a program called FileOptimizer to crush my images. Not sure what backend you're using (on mobile and didn't bother check) but it might be of use

https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=FileOptimizer

Yeah I know -- arithmetic Jpegs are, regarding compatibility, a problem :/. They never gained any popularity even though they are roughly 8-15% smaller than the common Jpegs. I created the arithmetic Jpegs with Fileoptimizer which is Open Source. Maybe this could help you: https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=FileOptimizer. Maybe you could even work together with the creator of Fileoptimizer, since his aim is to optimise files losslessly. And the Jpeg to JXL does exactly this.

I would prefer them converted without loss into JXL. I want reduce the file size of my photo archive a little.

Here is a an arithmetic Jpeg: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lbDp-xSTT1zMhkWb2mxwNqHdjL0q0lOa/view?usp=sharing

I'm more of a YouTube guy, and thus don't watch TV much except when I catch something downstairs (I occasionally stay around, usually for Family Guy, usually until an ad break or the credits) or experiment with receiving it on my bedroom TV. I recently got an aerial, so that should be helpful with reception and receiving more channels, including BBC or radio ones. I may get around to it when I have the time while optimising files with FileOptimizer.

What do you mean by locally? If you mean running locally on your computer then use an image minification tool. For Windows I recommend FileOptimizer, which is free and will get just about the best lossless compression possible - you can just drag the folder onto it and it'll minify everything keeping in order. For backup just have a copy of the folder.

Otherwise running locally "on the server", try using Slimage plugin that runs a couple of compression tools (optipng), but requires they are installed on the server. If you don't have access to the server config then IMO it isn't going to get much better than what WordPress uses for its image optimization during post processing. It is however potentially going to take ages and bog up your server.

I like the rest of you have started noticing this new process pop up since around the beginning of September, it 'probably' started happening along with the release of their latest WD platform 4.18.2108.7-0 that was also released around the same time or so. As to why it is acting up now and what it's doing, I don't know...

I have noticed though that when running such programs as <strong>ShareX</strong> or <strong>FileOptimizer</strong> for example, these things start the spark that is this MpCopyAccelerator process, then that doesn't go away until a system reboot.

This behavior is all new, I've been using ShareX and FileOptimizer for years and this has never been a thing from before.

Anyway, just my 2 cents adding to the pot, it's not much... And please do keep us updated here if you find out anything new about this. Also good luck with replies from MS lol.

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PNG optimization is designed for maximal gain, no matter the processing time. There’s other tools like Nikkho’s File Optimizer or raw ECT which are faster, but won’t shove off that last dozen bytes. I know that many people are happy with moderate but fast improvements, but there’s already plenty of tools for that. It’s just not the gap I’m trying to fill.

Long explanation: The PNG algorithm is genetic and stops after 500 generations without gain. It should never reach infinity, but stop somewhere between 10k and 30k. If may start over again if your PNG is palettized – in this case, re-ordering the palette colors can improve compression ratio, but this grows the search space considerably and may take up to 100× longer.

JPEG is much, much faster to optimize because there’s a smaller search space for the perfect solution. But there’s also less gain.

Animated GIF can be even worse than PNG, and I still have to find a solution for that.

With FileOptimizer you can compress nearly every format.

For example you can compress jpeg up to 10% of the original file size, of you select the lossy compression and still up to 90% with the lossless compression.

https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=FileOptimizer

It is not a general purpose compressor, but if beforehand you wanted to shrink a number of files (PDFs, pictures, ebooks, documents) - all in a lossless manner and keeping them individually accessible, I would recommend you to try /u/Corvus_Ridiculissimus 's Minuimus https://birds-are-nice.me/software/minuimus.html (Linux only, GPL3)

or FileOptimizer https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=FileOptimizer (Windows only, AGPL)

Interesting. I've been using FileOptimizer myself to optimize various things with either lossless or lossy algorithm choices and the results have been great! If you're also interested in stuff like this and haven't heard of the tool before you should check it out.

Can you please first:

1. Define "slide weight".
2. Guide us through the steps you used to determine the weight of each slide.

You can't achieve similar file sizes as an exported PDF. If you'd like to get optimal results don't be lazy and first crop then optimize your images before importing them in PowerPoint. I'd recommend FileOptimizer for Windows. Before you say you don't have access to the original files: you can unzip your Excel spreadsheet and fetch them from the xl/media folder.

I've personally had a good experience using this:

https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=FileOptimizer

Mostly used it for images, so I'm unsure about its performance on PDFs. Also it only spins up a single thread or two so it's best to launch multiple instances to run various files at a time.

Depends on the tool but I use FileOptimizer, in the options you can pick the dpi, for websites 72dpi is usually fine.

But yeah you should be putting the symbols directly into the pdfs via LaTeX, or look at using something like MathJax directly on the page instead of hiding stuff in pdfs.

in an ideel world both channels would exist, so right now growth is a priority
thanks for your insight

random tool: file optimizer https://nikkhokkho.sourceforge.io/static.php?page=FileOptimizer - optimize files easily

I use this two FileOptimizer Caesium

Caesium work better than FileOptimizer though.

Assuming you haven't uploaded anything in BMP format, the tool you're talking about wouldn't make any difference to filesize if it's truly lossless. I can only spot PNG and JPG files with a quick look, which means they're already compressed.

Going by the description on the thing, they're saying 'visually lossless' which presumably means lossy compression.

Best you could do is try it and see whether the lossy compression is strong enough for you to be bothered by it.

If you don't want to do it via a plugin, you could look at some tools like FileOptimizer which probably does a similar job using some nifty tricks to knock a few % off stuff without much visual change from what I remember.

Install ffmpeg, download the original 720 x 720 mp4, create a batch file with the following commands:

mkdir frames ffmpeg -i ExcitableGlossyLcont.mp4 -vf "format=yuv444p, scale=1920:1920:flags=neighbor, crop=1080:1920" frames/frame%%03d.png

Put it in the same folder as the video and run it. The processed images are saved in the "frames" folder.

If the images are still too large, you can losslessly optimize them with FileOptimizer (it's very slow but the files should end up about 15% smaller).