Yes, images are not compressed in ZIM files, as Emmanuel pointed out.

Also, I have tried decompressing a LZMA compressed file on an Android phone
(HTC Wildfire to be precise), and the decompression speed is not a problem.

LZMA-Java is under frequent development by Lasse Collin, so we should make
sure that the latest code is used.

On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Emmanuel Engelhart
<[email protected]>wrote:

> On 24/09/2011 14:24, Christian Pühringer wrote:
> > The JAVA liblzma performance is pretty bad: To increase efficiency of
> > compression in the zim-format articles (and also all
> > other data like images) are stored in clusters. Cluster size is
> apparently about
> > 1 MB. This implies that loading an article
> > which is stored at the end of a cluster involves decompressing the
> complete
> > cluster.
>
> Images should not be compressed in ZIM files for the obvious reasons
> they mainly are already compressed. This is the case for all ZIM files I
> made. As far as I know this is also the case for Mediawiki:Collection
> build ZIM files.
>
> Emmanuel
>
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Best,

Arunesh Mathur
IV year, Undergraduate,
Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
National Institute of Technology Karnataka Surathkal,
India.
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