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Minuimus is a file optimiser utility script
.pl Minuimus is a file optimiser utility script: You point it at a file, and it makes the file smaller without compromising the file contents. File optimisers are able to do this using a variety of file-specfic optimisations, most of which involve decompressing data within a compressed file and recompressing it in a more efficient manner.
Minuimus's optimisations are, by default, completely transparent: Not a single pixel of an image will be changed in value, no audio or video will fall in quality. 7Z archives are extracted and constituent files processed, then recompression attempted using both LZMA and PPMd compression algorithms on highest practical settings. Additionally, minuimus has the option (disabled by default) of converting certain legacy multimedia files into modern codecs - reducing their size greatly in the process.
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