Cisoplus! : compress your Cso more quickly with less lags

Hi everybody,

I propose to you an improved version of the famous program ciso of Booster: CisoPlus!
Ciso is the soft that all the GUI use to compress the PSP-Iso in compressed Cso format.

So, what’s new in CisoPlus!:
- there are still the original compression/decompression functions of Booster
- there is a optimized compression for all CPU
- a simulation mode to estimate quickly the final compression rate
- a new option: threshold which allows (as Dax) to increase the size of the CSO slightly but reduce the lags during the game (e.g. GTA )
- a special optimized compression for DualCore Cpu owners. It can be twice faster than the initial version.
- there are options to automaticaly put audio&video files in NC area and also a "manual" option tha tlet you choose the file extensions you want to put in NC area.
- the 'Lost Area' option let you to not write media files in the CSO, no audio or video during game but the CSO is really smaller

The soft is a command-line tool in order to be integrated in any existing GUI. For example, the next version of Yacc will be able to use CisoPlus!

Here is the link to download CisoPlus! : CisoPlus! 1.0.11

A help, in English, is available directly in the soft: cisoplus -fullhelp . There are also Windows and linux binaries.

Some examples:
cisoplus –com -l9 infile.iso outfile.cso, uses Booster’s code to compress infile.iso to outfile.cso with compression level set to 9
cisoplus –com -opt -l9 -t99 gta.iso gta.cso, uses an optimized code to compress GTA with the maximum compression rate
cisoplus –com -opt -l9 -t0 -aud -vid gta.iso gta.cso, uses the threshold parameter and audio&video files in NC area to reduce lags during the game
cisoplus –com -MT -l9 -t99 gta.iso gta.cso, uses all a DualCore CPU power to compress the gta.iso
cisoplus –com -MT -l9 -t99 -rm_aud -rm_vid gta.iso gta.cso, rip the audio and video files to reduce more gta.iso

Some results on a Intel Pentium D 950 3.4GHz Dual Core for the game Grand Theft Auto, Liberty City Stories, ripped with UMD Dax Dumper beta 0.2:
ISO file size : 1.16 GB
cisoplus –com : 185 seconds
cisoplus –com_opt : 180 seconds
cisoplus –est : 160 seconds
cisoplus –com_MT : 105 seconds

Here, the multithread compression is 75% faster than the «basic» version (this can be up to 100% with the linux version )

I hope that CisoPlus! will be useful for you. Please report here any suggestions or bugs

Best regards

I will try it!.

does this open on vista? any help tryed to open help but cant

Originally Posted by hurstolds83

does this open on vista? any help tryed to open help but cant

The last time I tested CisoPlus on Vista it worked. I've used the beta of Vista.
Don't forget that CisoPlus is a command line tool: you must open it in a command prompt as ciso.exe or daxcr.exe.

I will recheck. Thanks for this comment.

I've checked and yes, CisoPlus works on Vista.
If you cannot use it, please just give me the error message and a short description of your configuration (CPU & OS)

Thanks

i'm running vista n it doesn't seem to work. i open it n da cmd opens n closes, straight away.

This is not really a proof, but the program can run on a Vista



Are you really sure that you open a command prompt?
If not the program only display a short help and close. This is absolutely normal.

Anyone else has this problem?

Please, just give me a description of your configuration if cisoplus doesn't work

Thanks

Originally Posted by SiMONZ!

i'm running vista n it doesn't seem to work. i open it n da cmd opens n closes, straight away.

learn how to use command line programs for god's sake

what about the source to be able to build it on linux? (even no x86 oses)

Thanks for some reason I can't open in the c: drive which is the vista drive put on my external and it works perfect thanks for the pic much appreciated.

Originally Posted by weltall

what about the source to be able to build it on linux? (even no x86 oses)

I've made a Linux version in order to use the time function and make (good) tests. I can make some binaries. But to make a fast program on Windows ( ), I can’t make clean ANSI C code. As I don’t want to manage 2 different versions, I think I will not work on the Linux version for the future releases.

Originally Posted by hurstolds83

Thanks for some reason I can't open in the c: drive which is the vista drive put on my external and it works perfect thanks for the pic much appreciated.

Vista is a bit special. I think you have to be root to write on the C drive.

Anyway, for CisoPlus! v1.0.4 there are NO reasons that it doesn't work if other programs such as ciso.exe works.

So when you gonna include in yacc?

Originally Posted by hurstolds83

So when you gonna include in yacc?

First, I must finish the 0.3.8.x series to make a final 0.4 version.
There are a lot of invisible functions in the latest version that will be available in the next few days.

On another hand, I prefer wait some another days (weeks?) to be sure that CisoPlus! has no bugs. CisoPlus! must be 100% reliable and not 99.9%, if you see what I mean .

Indeed, others GUI (CSO-DAX compressor, ISO Compressor, YAPT, …) only call the Booster compiled ciso.exe to compress the Iso. Even in Yacc, the original ciso.exe is called but it is done more cleverly . So, if one of them has a bug, there are NO consequences on the final CSO file. The game is still playable.

To resume, the more I have comments and bug reports (especially for CisoPlus), the quicker you will have new versions of Yacc and CisoPlus! and CisoPlus! in Yacc.

Thank you for your interest in my both software.

seems to be working well on metal slug anthology