simpleRLE

a simple run-length encoding system

pros:

• compression ratio up to 85:1
• no unneeded data is stored
• can be used very well for compressing quantized DCT matrixes

cons:

• not suitable for almost anything else
• does not use C strings
• size of uncompressed buffer not stored in compressed text

how it works:

input data: hellooooo world output data: hell5*o world

not exactly this way but somewhat like it. the compressed data can just be read from the file normally, except if the byte read is equal to 0x02 (2 in decimal)

struct block {
    unsigned char sign;
    unsigned char amount;
    unsigned char character;
};

the sign is always 0x02 the amount contains how long we need to repeat the character and the 'character' key contains the value so hello world would be stored as hell\0x02\0x05o world 0x02: indicates start of a block 0x05: length of repeated string o = character to repeat