Swapper test: Compress/share multimedia files

With the spread of digital camera, video cameras and mobile audio/video players, people are sharing more and more personal multimedia files with their family and friends.

If sending mp3 files and a limited number of photos generally poses no great problem, this becomes more complicated when there are a large number of files to share. This is especially the case after a holiday or particular occasion like a wedding, concert, or birthday. These kinds of events are characterized by a large number of photos thanks to digital cameras and memory cards that are always increasing in size. This is without even mentioning digital video cameras which offer the possibility of transferring audio/video easily to your PC, with the appropriate software, when compared to older analog models where an acquisition card was required.

While there are a large number of archiving programs available, which means the compression/decompression of files, you will need to know the most adequate file format for the picture, sound and video, as well as compression format so as to make their sending across the internet easier. This is without forgetting the difficulties that can be encountered by novice users to be able to decompress and discover the received files. Simply, with the lost time and problems of all kinds, it seems at times that it would be easier to just write it to a CD or DVD and send it via the post.

Fortunately, these problems can today be solved with the free Swapper software.