Bz2ui2 - a gui tool for batch bzip2 compression.

infinite_ · **Author**

I made a GUI tool for compressing a large number of files in bzip2 format for fast-download servers (as far as I know this is the only gui tool available for windows). Just drag and drop any files you want to compress into the window and compress in one click. I made this tool mostly to learn qt development but I figured some of you on here might find it useful.

Download and source here.

Enjoy

Potato Uno · *Last edited by Potato Uno; 11-02-2015 at 23:23.*

(Already has a bz2 tool) Does it parallelize the compression or is it single threaded the whole way?

EDIT: Managed to test it, no it doesn't parallelize. The ability to parallelize the operation so that you have multiple threads compressing multiple files at once would be delightful (hell even python allows this to happen).

Otherwise it's a pretty useful tool and the GUI interface is great.

infinite_ · 11-02-2015 , 23:35 Re: Bz2ui2 - a gui tool for batch bzip2 compression.

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Originally Posted by Potato Uno

(Already has a bz2 tool) Does it parallelize the compression or is it single threaded the whole way?

EDIT: Managed to test it, no it doesn't parallelize. The ability to parallelize the operation so that you have multiple threads compressing multiple files at once would be delightful (hell even python allows this to happen).

Otherwise it's a pretty useful tool and the GUI interface is great.

You know, I hadn't even thought of that until now. Definitely a possibility for future versions. Thanks for checking it out!

Powerlord · 11-04-2015 , 16:09 Re: Bz2ui2 - a gui tool for batch bzip2 compression.

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Originally Posted by Potato Uno

(Already has a bz2 tool) Does it parallelize the compression or is it single threaded the whole way?

EDIT: Managed to test it, no it doesn't parallelize. The ability to parallelize the operation so that you have multiple threads compressing multiple files at once would be delightful (hell even python allows this to happen).

Otherwise it's a pretty useful tool and the GUI interface is great.

If you're using straight up bzip2, then parallelizing might work. However, if you try this with the Parallel BZip2 (aka pbzip2) algorithm, it will already be using all available cores and you'll actually slow things down.