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MPXplay 1.67 (Announce)

posted by Zyzzle, 13.06.2023, 01:52

> BTW lzma decompression is much slower on old pentium class so it may be the
> reason why author didn't use it.

Yes, of course. But, on "modern" systems, it hardly makes a difference (~1/10 a second?), so saving an extra ~100k-200k on EXE size is worth it with using UPX lzma compression...
But, I can't get the MPXplay .exe decompressed in order to re-compress it with UPX lzma mode. Did you have any success?

Complete thread:

• MPXplay 1.67 - Laaca, 10.06.2023, 23:15 (Announce)
  • MPXplay 1.67 - glennmcc, 11.06.2023, 23:08
  • MPXplay 1.67 - Zyzzle, 12.06.2023, 23:35
    • MPXplay 1.67 - RayeR, 13.06.2023, 00:26
      • MPXplay 1.67 - Zyzzle, 13.06.2023, 01:52
    • MPXplay 1.67 - RayeR, 13.06.2023, 02:44
      • MPXplay 1.67 - Zyzzle, 14.06.2023, 04:58
    • MPXplay 1.67 - CandyMan, 08.07.2023, 14:28
  • MPXplay 1.67 - dggionco, 15.06.2023, 17:15
  • MPXplay 1.67 - sezeroz, 08.07.2023, 14:45
    • MPXplay 1.67 - Laaca, 08.07.2023, 20:30