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/prog/ challenge - Compressing Visual Novels

Name: Cudder !cXCudderUE 2016-05-14 17:53

What makes VN companies come up with proprietary image/video/audio formats that compress worse than standard ones? Here's an example:

Proprietary format, original: 871KB
Proprietary format, recompressed[1]: 822KB
PNG: 676KB
Optimised PNG: 674KB
JPG (high): 221KB
JPG (medium): 125KB
JPG (low, artifacts start becoming obvious): 86.7KB

So they could be several times smaller while looking almost the same, and that's not even getting into things like difference encoding since the bulk of them are almost the same images with slight differences.

Here's the challenge: find an existing VN, and write a little utility to compress it to 1/2th its original size or less while maintaining all the content. You have until the end of the year.

[1] I RE'd the format and wrote a compressor for it, which performed better than the original while decompressing to the exact same data.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-14 18:00

What makes crap companies come up with crap formats that compress worse than standard ones? Here's an example: some shit, more shit[1] and shit.

[1] I'm unemployed russian dubfuck Cudder and have too much time on my hands.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-14 18:09

VNs are made by companies who are too poor to animate a story.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-14 18:18

Nips have a huge NIH complex. Besides that, their programs pretty much always pure garbage. I've seen VNs that never idle the CPU.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-14 18:48

Anime is shit.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-14 18:55

Cudder, where is your _BROWSER_?

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-14 19:11

>>5
Back to kikebook, ``please''!

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-14 19:29

>>7
I don't even have an account there.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-14 20:44

>>7
𝓖𝓘𝓡𝓤𝓖𝓐𝓜𝓔𝓢𝓗!!!! 𝓵𝓮 𝓴𝓮𝓴𝓮.
😂😂😂
💯
💯 amirite?

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-14 21:38

>>1
You could probably go even lower with png.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-15 0:33

>>1
Says the person who wants to rewrite everything in his bullshit gimped style.

Fuck off.

Name: Cudder !cXCudderUE 2016-05-15 1:17

>>10
Optimising the PNG didn't help much, and the original format was compressed anyway. The uncompressed raw file is 2.8MB.

>>11
Fuck you too.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-15 1:19

>>12
How did you optimise it exactly?

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-15 3:07

Cudder confirmed to be a hentai game weaboo faggot.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-15 3:09

>>14
He's been ``translating'' VNs for years you retarded crossboarding faggot. Back to /g/.

Name: Cudder !cXCudderUE 2016-05-15 4:47

>>13
With PngcRush, maximum settings.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-15 5:18

>>15
I had a higher opinion of Cudder. Never thought he is typical anime fatlus.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-15 13:48

>>17
You would have known that if you were at least one month old in this site.

Fuck off back to re/g/g/it.

Name: Cudder !cXCudderUE 2016-05-15 14:31

>>14,15,17
I don't actually play them, they're just a good source of multimedia and code to fiddle with.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-15 15:00

>>19
You're even more stupid than you appear.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-15 16:26

>>19
Heya, Cudder! What about that web browser, you're writing? Any progress on the IDA killer, can it translate x86 64bit exes to readable C/C++ code with little human guidance?

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-15 16:49

Stop bullying cudder you fat fucks

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-15 17:00

>>22
Hello, Cudder!

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-15 17:17

>>18
I'm bot that other guy but I've been browsing /prog/ regularly almost daily for about 7 years and I didn't know he translated VNs. Has he done any decent ones? I stopped reading VNs after G-Senjou because of how horrible it was

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-15 22:06

Check 'em

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-16 2:28

>>1
Hey nigger, have you thought that maybe they use those formats so that people don't steal the art and release it?

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-16 4:17

>>22
That's not nice. I'm a skinny fuck, and I'm going to keep bullying Cudder until it kills itself.

>>26
Like that will ever work.

Name: Cudder !cXCudderUE 2016-05-16 8:32

>>24
Like I said, I don't.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-16 13:44

>>24
Check warosu when it's not down

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-18 12:07

It's because they don't want to encourage people to skip the VN and just fap to the CGs instead. That and to make it just a little bit harder on the guys that share CG rips.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-18 15:26

>>30
skip the VN and just fap to the CGs instead.
that must be how Cudder got into programming in the first place.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-18 15:27

>>31
Cudder is such a laughing stock. Worse than Mentifex.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-18 19:23

/prog/ challenge - checking dubs

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-18 20:25

>>30
Just mash [ctrl]. Sex in VNs are complete garbage though. So much is written by obvious virgins.

>>32
/pol///g/-kun, pls, your obsession is getting out of hand.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-18 20:53

>>33
Nice dubs! Checked!

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-18 20:57

>>34
Not a book, not an animated series, not a game.

VNs are complete garbage.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-18 21:07

Where's my interactive anime?

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-18 22:22

ATTENTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please check these dubs: >>11,22,33

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-19 1:22

Recall when virtual VNs will be a thing?

Correct, never! VNs are the quick cash grab to get a fat revenue from the neet demographic of absolute losers. No one's gonna put effort into it by extending the experience to one lousy dimension.

Name: Anonymous 2016-05-19 2:15

>>39
Where do the NEET get money from?

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