Possible To Compress 500mb Down To 1.5mb? Heck Yes

I just stumbled upon a program that can compress 500mb down to 1.5mb.

Imagine that! Well its possible with a program called KGB Archiver. I cant give you an example because I found out with an office beta. The only downside is it takes hours to compress and hours to decompress. But its good for sending large files and for uses who have dialup.

Heres the app. http://www.icpnet.pl/~tomekpawlak/kgb/download2.php?file=0

 

Honestly, it can't be true... Have you tested it?

 

yeah! someone put their comp on the line and test this

please :-D

 

I can send you a file to test. its office beta. I will not post a link here to it though. It takes 6 hours to decompress it and I have a dual core. So its not convenient when you have fast internet, might aswell download it quicker or you have a slow old pc.

 

now I can store 500 times as much porn.

in full seriousness though good find, I'll remember this if I ever need to backup my system to a single CD or something fo the sort.

 

imagine backing up your whole harddrive of 120gb into a 400mb file lol!!!

 

ill try it, lets see if i can compress Photoshop cs 2 ( 300 mb ) to 2.5 mb ?

 

which equates to up to 1.2TB of porn on a single DVD

 

:wub: omg, great idea.

 

I really must test this, just need to find the time

 

Going to have to test it for myself, cause I don't believe it, then need to find the algorithm it uses to compress.....

Daz

 

does this really work? i cant believe it

 

Going to run it when I goto sleep tonight, or when I go off to the night club, if it can compress a 700mb avi into less then 50mb I will still be very impressed...
Daz

 

I'll pass.. I can dl the same file size in alot less of the time.
This is probably only useful to 56kers that want to decompress a file while they sleep overnight..

I prefer rar compression in the mean time. But hey, I don't transfer files over 60MB anyways..

 

i have used this

and its true

but it takes forever to compress/decompress

thats the downside