compressed files

How to: Linux Play DivX .avi video codec file

by on October 31, 2007 · 36 comments

From my mail bag: I’ve downloaded .avi files which is compressed into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality using DivX format. How do I play DivX compressed files under Debian / Ubuntu Linux? The current version of the DivX Community Codec for the Windows platform is version 6.6, and for Mac OS X [...]

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zcommands: Read gzip compressed text files on fly

by on August 31, 2007 · 8 comments

Both Linux and Unix like oses comes with z commands. It allows you to read gzip compressed text files using zless, zcat and zmore etc. gzip reduces the size of the files using Lempel-Ziv coding (LZ77). Whenever possible, each file is replaced by one with the extension .gz, while keeping the same ownership modes, access [...]

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