Major Factor

[dpletts]

Here is another 'abstract' style slideshow to accompany an ambient soundtrack.

Can be downloaded here.

The soundtrack is very much drone based - but, hopefully, you won't find it too boring! There is no real attempt to correlate sound and music. I am aware that there are some JPeg artifacts which are particularly noticeble when using large areas of one colour. Is there a better way to compress graphics? Or should I include the graphics as .bmp files and zip the resulting executable?

I made this show using version 6.5 beta 3 and have included an animated gif at the end. The soundtrack is just one long take.

Cheers,

David P

[Ken Cox]

DAVID

zipping graphics - bmp, jpgs etc gives you no gain in space

try it you will see

ken

[Ken Cox]

see

http://kb.winzip.com/kb/search/?s=1&q=zip+bmp

http://kb.winzip.com/kb/entry/104/

ken

[nobeefstu]

Ken is correct ... normally the overall exe file compresses very little when zipped, mainly because the exe file is already packed by UPX during PTE creation.

The only way to to gain additonal zip comppression is to select from the main menu View | Advanced Options and disable Crypt Images/Music against extracting from Exe file. The exe file will zip compress a bit more than that of a exe file that has the feature enabled.

The reason for the additional compression ... encrypted data really has no significant data to be compressed.

Note:

Please be aware that when using the feature disabled ... your images inside the exe are more easily vulnernable to be extracted by other users/tools.

[dpletts]

Many thanks for your help on the compression matter, gentlemen.

David

[fh1805]

David,

I'm not sure that the answers about compression actually answered your question. I think you were asking: "Is there something better than JPEG compression that will eliminate the JPEG compression artefacts?"

You could try saving the images as PNG format files and see if this helps reduce or eliminate the artefacts.

regards,

Peter

[dpletts]

Thanks Peter,

I will try PNG where needed in future.

David