16-01-2007, 02:49 AM
Ah, I thought you had an actual update server that sent the files. If you are retrieving files from the internet, then you completely limit yourself on what you can do. You would have to manually compress then upload them. Theres tons of compression algorithms out there. I personally use RLE, RLE(Looped) and ZLW for all my compressions. RLE is fastest and worst compression, while ZLW is slowest and best. As for the speed VS compression rate ratio, it is pretty bad - ie, lets say ZLW was 3x slower, it'd probably only compress about 15% better. RLE(Looped) is RLE but keeps looping until there is no compression, and is often quite fast still.
The code and an easy wrapper for these are all in vbGORE's source if you're interested. All you have to do is load a file with Compression_Compress , , , then the same thing with Compression_Decompress.
The code and an easy wrapper for these are all in vbGORE's source if you're interested. All you have to do is load a file with Compression_Compress , , , then the same thing with Compression_Decompress.