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bzz
Langue: en
Version: 10/11/2001 (fedora - 01/12/10)
Section: 1 (Commandes utilisateur)
NAME
bzz - DjVu general purpose compression utility.SYNOPSIS
Encoding:
bzz -e[blocksize] inputfile outputfileDecoding:
bzz -d inputfile outputfileDESCRIPTION
The first form of the command line (option -e ) compresses the data from file inputfile and writes the compressed data into outputfile. The second form of the command line (option -d ) decompressed file inputfile and writes the output to outputfile.OPTIONS
- -d
- Decoding mode.
- -e[blocksize]
- Encoding mode. The optional argument blocksize specifies the size of the input file blocks processed by the Burrows-Wheeler transform expressed in kilobytes. The default block sizes is 2048 KB. The maximal block size is 4096 KB. Specifying a larger block size usually produces higher compression ratios and increases the memory requirements of both the encoder and decoder. It is useless to specify a block size that is larger than the input file.
ALGORITHMS
The Burrows-Wheeler transform is performed using a combination of the Karp-Miller-Rosenberg and the Bentley-Sedgewick algorithms. This is comparable to (Sadakane, DCC 98) with a slightly more flexible ranking scheme. Symbols are then ordered according to a running estimate of their occurrence frequencies. The symbol ranks are then coded using a simple fixed tree and the ZP binary adaptive coder (Bottou, DCC 98).The Burrows-Wheeler transform is also used in the well known compressor bzip2. The originality of bzz is the use of the ZP adaptive coder. The adaptation noise can cost up to 5 percent in file size, but this penalty is usually offset by the benefits of adaptation.
PERFORMANCE
The following table shows comparative results (in bits per character) on the Canterbury Corpus ( http://corpus.canterbury.ac.nz ). The very good bzz performance on the spreadsheet file excl puts the weighted average ahead of much more sophisticated compressors such as fsmx.
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Note that DjVu contributors have several entries in this table. Program compress was written some time ago by Joe Orost. Program ppmd is an improvement of the PPM-C method invented by Paul Howard.
CREDITS
Program bzz was written by L'eon Bottou <leonb@users.sourceforge.net> and was then improved by Andrei Erofeev <andrew_erofeev@yahoo.com>, Bill Riemers <docbill@sourceforge.net> and many others.SEE ALSO
djvu(1), compress(1), gzip(1), bzip2(1)Contenus ©2006-2024 Benjamin Poulain
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