Someone reviewed v on Jul 5, 2022

Pros: 555

Cons: 555

Bottom Line: 555

taxis reviewed v1.13 Beta on Apr 20, 2006

If developers (unintentionally, of course) use third party tools to achieve their compression results, it is shows that they have no trust in their own potential, so it would be a waste of time to expect improvements.

Zero3K reviewed v1.13 Beta on Apr 19, 2006

Frank Bicking:

That post was made relating to an earlier version. According to the news section for it on its homepage, all 3rd party softwares have been removed from it. I suggest that you try looking for them in it.

Frank Bicking reviewed v1.13 Beta on Apr 19, 2006

Is being accused of violating the copyright of various applications.

Details:

http://www.hydrogenaudio...w=findpost&p=379926

Zero3K reviewed v1.12 Beta on Apr 18, 2006

I think that this program shows promise. I agree with people stating that it has a bad UI and hope that it'll be improved in a later version. It has problems (since its a beta) that should be fixed soon (along with any licensing issues).

Koopatrooper reviewed v1.12 Beta on Apr 18, 2006

Yet another compression tool, I don't like the interface.

extremely well reviewed v1.12 Beta on Apr 17, 2006

AWESOME! I printed the code of this software on a full roll of charmin ultra toilet paper. Ahhhhh such pleasure.

demetrisk reviewed v1.12 Beta on Apr 17, 2006

Have a look here: http://www.hydrogenaudio...dex.php?showtopic=43311

Or here: http://www.maximumcompre...guestbook/guestbook.php

espalda_mojada reviewed v1.12 Beta on Apr 17, 2006

worst than even winzip
this will NEVER replace winrar or 7zip

hardgiant reviewed v1.12 Beta on Apr 17, 2006

Lots of bad points here:
1. Terrible UI...lose the skin.
2. Compression takes to long and eats all your system resources.
3. It messes with system files.
4. Bloated 15 meg download compared to WinRAR 1 meg.

Can't even think about using this over WinRAR.

itrigalo reviewed v1.12 Beta on Apr 17, 2006

someone wrote a short review:

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INFIMA 1.12 VS FILZIP 3.04
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Infima claims to be revolutionary software. I recommend you will read my review and judge it yourself...
For testing, I created a temporary folder and copied a series of files of different types into it. The folder structure is shown below:

Folder content:
Audio:
3 MP3
3 WAV
Archive:
1 Installation pack (EXE(
1 ZIP
Documents:
1 DOC
1 MSG
1 PDF
1 RTF
1 TXT
Video:
2 MPG
Images:
1 JPG
1 BMP

Original Folder Size: 47.7MB (50,026,931 bytes)

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Compression with Infima
=======================

Infima: LAN - Maximum Compression

Start Time: 10:04:00
End Time: 10:06:25
Seconds: 145

Compressed size: 32.7MB (34,367,101 bytes)
Compression Ratio: 31.4%

Infima: LAN - Decompression

Start Time: 10:11:18
End Time: 10:12:22
Seconds: 64

New Size: 38,960,103 bytes
Lost Bytes: 11,066,827 (22% of the original!)

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Compared to FilZip
==================

Filzip: ZIP - Maximum Compression

Start Time: 10:03:06
End Time: 10:03:19
Seconds: 13

Compressed size: 44.1 (46,277,084 bytes)
Compression Ratio: 7%

Filzip: ZIP - Decompression

Start Time: 10:14:51
End Time: 10:15:07
Seconds: 15

New Size (Bytes): 47.7MB (50,026,931 bytes)
Lost bytes: 0

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Conclusions
===========

My conclusions are that Infima doesn't bring anything new into the compression scene. Its compression ratios are quite similar to other when dealing documents and archives.

The difference is when compressing audio and video files. Infima can reduce the size a single mp3 file by 40% and even more. How it can be lossless?
Well, I think the answer is that it is simply NOT. According to my tests, my MP3 files lost 50% of their original size AFTER decompression! and even though I'm not an audio expert I can notice that my file has lost a wide range of its high frequencies and it simply sounds bad!!! Calling this lossless would be simply a lie. In addition, my file also lost its ID3v1 and ID3v2 tags.

And what about the program itself? Even though the software is still a BETA, it is a shame to release such version. It took the developers two versions to understand they have a serious problem with the installation. "OUT OF MEMORY" was the maximum result most of people were able to get of this program. And now that I finally able to run it, I discovered that after a simple compression, your computer will be filled with "garbage" files such as "tmparc", some "$$$tmp" files and maybe more I didn't notice. In addition, my original filename was changed. Why do they touch it anyway?!?!

My recommendation (for now anyway): STAY AWAY! Infima is currently just a bad joke: It's slow, buggy, and the worst thing, it's NOT lossless, it will simply damage you files!

Das mod reviewed v1.12 Beta on Apr 17, 2006

not very specific on the compression ratio ...