RAR decoding problem
  • dangerdaddangerdad September 2010
    I've posted the screenshot of reading "Kick-Ass" issue 6 here:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/47280353@N04/5030561019/

    It's a cbr file, and when I manually extract using WinRAR the jpg is decoded clean (and ACV reads the jpg correctly). Looking at the cbr header, it does appear to be a valid RAR 2 formatted archive.
  • zissouzissou September 2010
    Hi dangerdad.

    Most likely this is a highly compressed RAR2 file, and Droid Comic Viewer doesn't have enough memory to decompress it properly. Can you try packing the same JPEG file in a RAR file without compression and see if you get noise as well?

    Thanks!
  • dangerdaddangerdad September 2010
    That problem is unlikely. The compression ratio isn't significant (less than 3%) and there is nothing special about it compared to other files.

    I've seen this kind of distortion previously in cbz files, and just not worried about it much.
  • zissouzissou September 2010
    It's not the ratio, it's the decompression algorithm. Some require a bigger memory window than the rest, and since we limit the window to 5MB (IIRC), this happens in some cases.

    That's my take at least. Not a RAR expert by any stretch.
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