Comments on: Reducer http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/ Actionscript3, Flash, Scala, Java, C#, C++, Algorithms & Imageprocessing Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:26:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dario Pelella http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-257850 Dario Pelella Wed, 20 Jul 2011 09:22:57 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-257850 Oh man! it works like a charm! is there a version for reducing audio files? i use flex and it seems there are a lot of limitations in using low freq or low kbs mp3 files anyone there could give me the best solution about best audio compression method in flex? :D i like your blog very much :D Oh man! it works like a charm!

is there a version for reducing audio files?
i use flex and it seems there are a lot of limitations in using low freq or low kbs mp3 files

anyone there could give me the best solution about best audio compression method in flex? :D

i like your blog very much :D

]]> By: Erik http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-190442 Erik Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:55:08 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-190442 I swapped in your test rainbow png for my png of little variation and... file size reduction goodness! Obviously, I guess the type of image factors into the savings. My images do not have that much variation, so I guess the savings are moot. Any event, this was educational and fun. Thanks. I swapped in your test rainbow png for my png of little variation and… file size reduction goodness! Obviously, I guess the type of image factors into the savings. My images do not have that much variation, so I guess the savings are moot. Any event, this was educational and fun. Thanks.

]]> By: Erik http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-190440 Erik Wed, 21 Apr 2010 16:31:26 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-190440 I am not able to further compress swfs with pngs with alphas and using quality 1.0. In your documentation you say: "- The best way to reducer is embedding PNG files with an alpha channel and then using the -quality 1.0 setting. This will keep the best quality but your SWF will still shrink a lot." Is there an additional parameter or setting I should be using? Thank you. I am not able to further compress swfs with pngs with alphas and using quality 1.0.

In your documentation you say:
“- The best way to reducer is embedding PNG files with an alpha channel and then using the -quality 1.0 setting. This will keep the best quality but your SWF will still shrink a lot.”

Is there an additional parameter or setting I should be using? Thank you.

]]> By: Daniel http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-190274 Daniel Sun, 18 Apr 2010 08:47:39 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-190274 How to use!! How to use!!

]]> By: pleclech http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-180491 pleclech Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:57:00 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-180491 @Joa you´re welcome for the patch, thanks for the Apparat tools :) @Arnoud Thanks for sending a sample file. Patrick. @Joa you´re welcome for the patch, thanks for the Apparat tools :)

@Arnoud Thanks for sending a sample file.

Patrick.

]]> By: Anoud Bos http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-180383 Anoud Bos Tue, 01 Dec 2009 08:37:03 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-180383 Hi Joa, Thanx, works great! Gotta say i love this tool, it's so useful! 1.4 meg to 800k without visible quality loss is awesome! thanx again, Arnoud Hi Joa,

Thanx, works great!
Gotta say i love this tool, it’s so useful! 1.4 meg to 800k without visible
quality loss is awesome!

thanx again,

Arnoud

]]> By: joa http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-180297 joa Mon, 30 Nov 2009 09:59:12 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-180297 Anoud, please choose the Recuder download from apparat.googlecode.com which should work. Best, Joa Anoud,

please choose the Recuder download from apparat.googlecode.com which should work.

Best,

Joa

]]> By: Anoud Bos http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-180294 Anoud Bos Mon, 30 Nov 2009 08:49:17 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-180294 Hi Joa, i needed to update the project of which i posted the problematic swf files. After checking out taas from svn and rebuilding i tried the fixed reducer, but still the images smaller than 16px disappear on the player. is the fix already in svn? or do i need to do something with deblock or keep-premultiplied? Not sure where those are for. thanx, Arnoud Hi Joa,

i needed to update the project of which i posted the problematic swf files.
After checking out taas from svn and rebuilding i tried the fixed reducer, but still the images smaller than 16px disappear on the player.

is the fix already in svn? or do i need to do something with
deblock or keep-premultiplied? Not sure where those are for.

thanx,

Arnoud

]]> By: joa http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-178605 joa Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:16:20 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-178605 The bug has been fixed by Patrick LeClech who submitted a patch to the open source Apparat project :) The bug has been fixed by Patrick LeClech who submitted a patch to the open source Apparat project :)

]]> By: Anoud Bos http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-178600 Anoud Bos Tue, 03 Nov 2009 09:27:13 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-178600 Hi Joa, awesome! we wanted to use it in a big project, but we use small images. With this fix we can use it :-) thanx for the fast fix! Arnoud Hi Joa,

awesome! we wanted to use it in a big project, but we use small images.
With this fix we can use it :-)

thanx for the fast fix!

Arnoud

]]> By: joa http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-178372 joa Sat, 31 Oct 2009 16:49:48 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-178372 Anoud: Your bug has been fixed. Thank you for the example SWFs. Anoud: Your bug has been fixed. Thank you for the example SWFs.

]]> By: Anoud Bos http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-178099 Anoud Bos Wed, 28 Oct 2009 23:13:59 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-178099 Nice, i'll check back in a while. thanx! arnoud Nice,

i’ll check back in a while.

thanx!

arnoud

]]> By: joa http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-178041 joa Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:28:39 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-178041 Cool thank you. I have heard about taht error before but I was not able to reproduce it. With those SWFs I will be finally able to fix it :) Cool thank you. I have heard about taht error before but I was not able to reproduce it. With those SWFs I will be finally able to fix it :)

]]> By: Anoud Bos http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-178036 Anoud Bos Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:27:39 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-178036 sorry the code for the play button was filtered out.... here it is: mx:Button id="playPauseButton click="togglePlay()" toggle="true" width="18" height="18" icon="@Embed(source='assets/images/play.png')" toolTip="Play"/ cheers, Arnoud sorry the code for the play button was filtered out….

here it is:

mx:Button id=”playPauseButton
click=”togglePlay()”
toggle=”true”
width=”18″
height=”18″
icon=”@Embed(source=’assets/images/play.png’)”
toolTip=”Play”/

cheers,

Arnoud

]]> By: Anoud Bos http://blog.joa-ebert.com/2009/08/08/reducer/comment-page-1/#comment-178035 Anoud Bos Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:24:52 +0000 http://blog.joa-ebert.com/?p=417#comment-178035 Hi Joa, very nice tool, I tried it with a .swf of 1.4 meg and it was reduced to 800k nice! there was 1 problem. some small icons disappear after optimization. optimization: java -jar reducer.jar -input the_romantic_manifesto.swf -output the_romantic_manifesto_0.9.swf -quality 0.9 as you can see online the icons of the music player disappeared. they are 16x16 px and are embedded in the regular way for example the play button: <code> </code> you can see the result online here. go to music (no sound is actually avaiable, just the swf's are there) the first link is the original, the second the optimized. http://www.theromanticmanifesto.com/the_romantic_manifesto.swf http://www.theromanticmanifesto.com/the_romantic_manifesto_0.9.swf if you want the source for testing let me know! Arnoud Hi Joa,

very nice tool,

I tried it with a .swf of 1.4 meg and it was reduced to 800k nice!
there was 1 problem.

some small icons disappear after optimization.

optimization:
java -jar reducer.jar -input the_romantic_manifesto.swf -output the_romantic_manifesto_0.9.swf -quality 0.9

as you can see online the icons of the music player disappeared.
they are 16×16 px and are embedded in the regular way for example the play button:

you can see the result online here. go to music (no sound is actually avaiable, just the swf’s are there)
the first link is the original, the second the optimized.

http://www.theromanticmanifesto.com/the_romantic_manifesto.swf
http://www.theromanticmanifesto.com/the_romantic_manifesto_0.9.swf

if you want the source for testing let me know!

Arnoud

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