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A stream format takes a stream of bytes, and outputs a different, hopefully smaller, stream of bytes. These compression formats are often used internally in other data structures to compress data, as well as in network protocols, such as http. Used stand-alone, a stream compression format does not offer archiving capability, however in the UNIX doctrine, an archiver like [[tar]] can be combined with an archive format to produce a proper compressed archive.
 
A stream format takes a stream of bytes, and outputs a different, hopefully smaller, stream of bytes. These compression formats are often used internally in other data structures to compress data, as well as in network protocols, such as http. Used stand-alone, a stream compression format does not offer archiving capability, however in the UNIX doctrine, an archiver like [[tar]] can be combined with an archive format to produce a proper compressed archive.
  
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== Compression in general ==
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== Compression algorithms and compressed data formats ==
  
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(including specific implementations used in multiple formats)
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(excluding formats usually used as file formats)
  
 
* [[Arithmetic coding]]
 
* [[Arithmetic coding]]
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* [[Brotli]]
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* [[Burrows–Wheeler transform]]
 
* [[DEFLATE]]
 
* [[DEFLATE]]
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* [[DivANS]]
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* [[EXEPACK2]]
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* [[FastLZ]]
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* [[Fractal compression]]
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* [[HPACK (HTTP)|HPACK]] (used to compress HTTP headers)
 
* [[Huffman coding]]
 
* [[Huffman coding]]
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* [[Lempel-Ziv]]
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** [[Adaptive Huffman coding]]
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** [[Canonical Huffman code]]
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* [[InstaCompOne]]
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* [[Lempel–Ziv–Stac]] (LZS)
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* [[LZ4]]
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* [[LZ77]]
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* [[LZ77 with Huffman coding]]
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* [[LZ78]]
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* [[LZFSE]]
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* [[LZHAM]]
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* [[LZMA]]
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* [[LZMA2]]
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* [[LZMW]]
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* [[LZO]] (Lempel–Ziv–Oberhumer)
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* [[LZRW]]
 
* [[LZSS]] (Lempel–Ziv–Storer–Szymanski)
 
* [[LZSS]] (Lempel–Ziv–Storer–Szymanski)
 
* [[LZW]]
 
* [[LZW]]
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* [[LZX]]
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** [[LZX Delta]]
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* [[MSZIP]]
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* [[PKWARE DCL Implode]]
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* [[PPMd]]
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* [[Prediction by partial matching]] (PPM)
 
* [[Run-length encoding]]
 
* [[Run-length encoding]]
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** [[PackBits]]
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** [[RLE90]]
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* [[Shannon–Fano coding]]
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* [[Snappy]] (Google-created compression also used by Apple in iWork formats)
 
* [[zlib]]
 
* [[zlib]]
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* [[Zstandard]] (Zstd)
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** [[Zstandard dictionary]]
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=== Graphics compression ===
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See [[Graphics#Compression]] for compression formats used primarily with graphics.
  
 
== Specific file formats/programs ==
 
== Specific file formats/programs ==
  
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* [[7z]]  
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(multi-file compressors are in [[Archiving]])
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* [[9CDR]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
 
* [[9CDR]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
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* [[ABC (Advanced Blocksorting Compressor)]]
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* [[ABComp]] (.abp)
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* [[Aldus PKZP]]
 
* [[BARF]] (.x, .x??)
 
* [[BARF]] (.x, .x??)
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* [[BGZF]]
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* [[BWTC32Key]] (.B3K)
 
* [[bzip]] (.bz)
 
* [[bzip]] (.bz)
 
* [[bzip2]] (.bz2)
 
* [[bzip2]] (.bz2)
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* [[compress]] (.Z)
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* [[BZip3]] (.bz3)
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* [[CAZIP]]
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* [[ChiefLZ]] (.LZZ)
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* [[compact (Gene Olson)]] (.W)
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* [[compact (Unix)]] (.C)
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* [[compress (Unix)]] (.Z)
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* [[CMP (NEW-DOS)]]
 
* [[CrLZH]] (.?y?)
 
* [[CrLZH]] (.?y?)
 
* [[CRN]] (.crn) - compressed text files used for PC-Write manual
 
* [[CRN]] (.crn) - compressed text files used for PC-Write manual
 
* [[Crunch]] (.?z?)
 
* [[Crunch]] (.?z?)
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* [[DiskDoubler]]  
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* [[Crunch-Mania]]
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* [[DACT]]
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* [[DitPack]]
 
* [[DUPA]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
 
* [[DUPA]] (Amiga FileImploder Clone)
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* [[EDI Install archive]]
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* [[EDI Install packed file]]
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* [[EDI LZSSLib]]
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* [[EmmaCompress]]
 
* [[Error Code Modeler]] (.ecm)
 
* [[Error Code Modeler]] (.ecm)
 
* [[File Imploder]] (Amiga) (.imp)
 
* [[File Imploder]] (Amiga) (.imp)
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* [[FlySpeed st/exp]]
 
* [[Freeze/Melt]] (Unix) (.F)
 
* [[Freeze/Melt]] (Unix) (.F)
 
* [[gzip]] (.gz)
 
* [[gzip]] (.gz)
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* [[Hammer (compression)|Hammer]]
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* [[HAP]] (v2.x)
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* [[ICE (Michael Lamanuzzi)|ICE]] (.ice, by Michael Lamanuzzi)
 
* [[Inflate]] (.infl) - parody format that actually increases size
 
* [[Inflate]] (.infl) - parody format that actually increases size
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* [[InstallIt!]]
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* [[JAM (W. Jiang)]]
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* [[The JAM Packer|JAM Packer, The]]
 
* [[JCalG1]] (.jc, Commodore Amiga)
 
* [[JCalG1]] (.jc, Commodore Amiga)
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* [[LZIP]] (.lz)
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* [[Kboom11]]
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* [[LZMA]] (.lzma)
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* [[lrzip]] (.lrz)
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* [[LZOP]] (.lzop)
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* [[LZ5 and Lizard]]
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* [[LZX]]
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* [[LZARI]]
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* [[LZHUF]]
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* [[Lzip]] (.lz)
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* [[LZMA Alone|LZMA_Alone]] (.lzma)
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* [[lzop]] (.lzo)
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* [[LZS221]]
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* [[LZSS (Haruhiko Okumura)]]
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* [[LZWCOM]]
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* [[LzwPak]]
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* [[Microsoft KWAJ installation compression]]
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* [[Microsoft SZ installation compression]]
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* [[Mozilla LZ4]] (.jsonlz4)
 
* [[MS-DOS installation compression]] (.??_)
 
* [[MS-DOS installation compression]] (.??_)
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* [[pack]] (.z)
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* [[MULTIKIT COMPRESS]]
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* [[RK]] (WinRK)
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* [[NetWare Packed File]]
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* [[NOAH]]
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* [[Nova Compress]]
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* [[NPack]]
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* [[NRV (Not Really Vanished)]]
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* [[Oodle Data Compression]]
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* [[pack (Unix)]] (.z)
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* [[PGNPack]]
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* [[PowerPacker]] (.pp)
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* [[PPMZ]]
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* [[PPMZ2]]
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* [[Pro-Pack]]
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* [[PUT and GET (Scott Jennings)]]
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* [[Quasijarus Strong Compression]]
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* [[RAC]]
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* [[Reduq]]
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* [[RKUC]]
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* [[rzip]] (.rz)
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* [[S2]] (.s2, .snappy)
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* [[SCO compress LZH]]
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* [[SEMONE]] (.one)
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* [[sfArk]]
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* [[SFDN Packer]]
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* [[SHARC]] (density)
 
* [[Softdisk Text Compressor]] (.ctx)
 
* [[Softdisk Text Compressor]] (.ctx)
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* [[Splint]]
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* [[SQ2]]
 
* [[Squash (RISC OS)|Squash]] - single file compression on RISC OS
 
* [[Squash (RISC OS)|Squash]] - single file compression on RISC OS
 
* [[Squeeze|Squeeze/SQ]] (.?q?)
 
* [[Squeeze|Squeeze/SQ]] (.?q?)
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* [[SQUEEZE (AJP Systems)]]
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* [[squeeze (Daniel Bernstein)]] (.MW)
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* [[Squish (Mike Albert)]]
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* [[Sunzip]] (.sz)
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* [[TERSE]]
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* [[Top4]]
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* [[TTCOMP]]
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* [[TTW]]
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* [[tzip]]
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* [[Tzip (Text ZIP)]]
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* [[UHBC]]
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* [[WWPACK]]
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* [[XPK]]
 
* [[XZ]] (.xz)
 
* [[XZ]] (.xz)
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* [[Yaz0]]
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* [[zchunk]]
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* [[Zoo filter format]]
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* [[Zoo Z format]]
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* [[ZSQ (LZW compression)]]
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== Transparent file compression ==
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(A mostly-obsolete technique in which a background process hooks into the OS and decompresses files transparently when they are read. ''Compression'' might be done manually. The line between this and ''Disk compression'' can be blurry.)
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* [[AFX (Atari ST)]]
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* [[CFS (Computer Concepts Compression)]]
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* [[DIET (compression)|DIET]]
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* [[Diet Disk]]
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* [[Pack-Ice]]
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* [[SLIM (Dominic Herity)|SLIM]]
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* [[Turbo Packer]]
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* [[XPACK]]
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== Disk compression ==
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(Transparent disk compression software and the like, excluding filesystem formats.)
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* [[DiskDoubler]]
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* [[DriveSpace]] and DoubleSpace
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* [[JAM (disk compression)]]
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* [[Stacker]]
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For filesystem formats that feature compression, see [[Filesystem]] (especially [[Filesystem#Compressed filesystems]]).
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== Executable compression ==
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See [[Executable compression]].
  
 
== See also ==
 
== See also ==
  
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* [[Compression and archiving software]]
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* [[Compression research]]
 
* [[Archiving]] (for formats that place multiple files together in one file, with or without compression)
 
* [[Archiving]] (for formats that place multiple files together in one file, with or without compression)
 
* [[Graphics#Compression|Graphics]] (for image-specific compression)
 
* [[Graphics#Compression|Graphics]] (for image-specific compression)
 
* [[Video]] (for video-specific compression)
 
* [[Video]] (for video-specific compression)
 
* [[Audio and Music]] (for audio-specific compression)
 
* [[Audio and Music]] (for audio-specific compression)
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== Links ==
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* [http://boingboing.net/2014/03/04/data-compression-with-playing.html Data-compression with playing cards]
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* [http://www.quora.com/What-is-the-most-compressed-file-ever/answer/Kelly-Martin?srid=uejz&share=1 What is the most compressed file ever?]
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* [http://ieeeghn.org/wiki/index.php/History_of_Lossless_Data_Compression_Algorithms History of Lossless Data Compression Algorithms]

Latest revision as of 12:18, 27 April 2024

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[edit] Stream compression formats

A stream format takes a stream of bytes, and outputs a different, hopefully smaller, stream of bytes. These compression formats are often used internally in other data structures to compress data, as well as in network protocols, such as http. Used stand-alone, a stream compression format does not offer archiving capability, however in the UNIX doctrine, an archiver like tar can be combined with an archive format to produce a proper compressed archive.

[edit] Compression algorithms and compressed data formats

(excluding formats usually used as file formats)

[edit] Graphics compression

See Graphics#Compression for compression formats used primarily with graphics.

[edit] Specific file formats/programs

(multi-file compressors are in Archiving)

[edit] Transparent file compression

(A mostly-obsolete technique in which a background process hooks into the OS and decompresses files transparently when they are read. Compression might be done manually. The line between this and Disk compression can be blurry.)

[edit] Disk compression

(Transparent disk compression software and the like, excluding filesystem formats.)

For filesystem formats that feature compression, see Filesystem (especially Filesystem#Compressed filesystems).

[edit] Executable compression

See Executable compression.

[edit] See also

[edit] Links

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