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A JavaScript Compression Tool for Web Applications
A CodeProject article which includes working code. Compression here consists of removal of comments, extra line feeds, white space, etc.
libdvbpsi
This nice little library is designed to perform the
decoding and generation of all Program Specific
Information in MPEG-2 TS and DVB streams. The project
says that it currently supports the Program Association
Table in MPEG-2 and the Program Map Table in MPEG-2.
Gif2Png
Convert your GIF files to PNG format under UNIX, Linux, or Win32.
ZipSplitter
ZipSplitter is a Win32 program that does two things for
you. First, it zips up a single file. Second, it will split
that zip file into several pieces of a size of your
choosing. When it does this, the last chunk is an EXE
file that knows how to recombine all the files into one.
JBIG2DEC
A JBIG2 decoder open source project, described as being O/S independent. The alpha releases are capable of decoding some JBIG2 documents but aren’t ready for prime time yet.
Version 0.4 was released July 31, 2003.
AVI to MPEG Converter
This Win32 program will convert your AVI files to various MPEG file types. There is a free version which limits conversions to MPEG-1. The commercial version supports MPEG-2 and various extensions.
ZipZag
Yet another Win32 archiver. Distinguishing features are: support for over 125 archive types, benchmarks that show it beating 7-Zip, WinRar, and WinAce for compression ratios.
libmspack - A library for Microsoft compression formats
A project whose goal is to implement libraries to support the various and sundry compression formats that Microsoft has cooked up over the years. Early in the process, much work left to be done.
AckerPack - Smarter Folder Compressor
This commercial Win32 program is designed to take a folder and turn it into self-extracting archives in a proprietary format. Commercial, no free trial, money back guarantee.
http://avatarsoft.com/free/simpleserver.exe?product&pg=AckerPack_About
libExif
A library that allows you to parse and read the meta-tag content in EXIF files. C code, but no comments regarding compilers or platforms.
Rarewares
A nice collection of pointers and links to audio/music compression software.
VK Tools
This is a set of tools that are used to analyze MPEG streams, and are intended to help developers check out the compliance of their work. There are three different tools that help you poke around in MPEG streams, see their contents, and dump their headers. Linux.
Version 0.7a is shipping in July, 2003.
PhpZip
A Php application to manage compressed archives. Handles Zip, tar, and proprietary archives.
BMP2PNG and PNG2BMP
Convert back and forth between PNG and BMP. Freeware.
OTR Audio PDA Player Project
OTR stands for “Old Time Radio”. The owners of this project want to be able to listen to classic mono AM radio recordings on their Sharp PDAs.
Pngmeta
Pngmeta is a tool for extracting metadata from PNG files. This is freeware.
Helix DNA Producer SDK Project Home Page
The Helix DNA Producer is a project that Real Networks has dropped into the open source space. Producer is a platform for creating streaming content and downloadable media files.
Win32 Wrapper classes for Gilles Volant’s Zip/Unzip API
This article is an addition to an earlier CodeProject posting that was designed to make your life easier when working with Zip files. The previous article had support for extraction and navigation of Zip files. This article adds support for creation of Zip files.
GRZip
GRZip - is a high-performance file compressor based on Burrows-Wheeler Transform and Advanced Weighted Frequency Counting. It uses The Block-Sorting Lossless Data Compression Algorithm, which has received considerable attention over recent years for both its simplicity and effectiveness. This implementation has compression rate of 2.364 bps on the Calgary Corpus. The site has Windows, Linux, […]
Text Preprocessing for Data Compression
by Jürgen Abel and William Teahan. This paper looks at a few different techniques for preprocessing data before performing text compression, and compares the gains achieved when combining the preprocessors with PPM, BWT, and LZ algorithms.
http://www.data-compression.info/JuergenAbel/Preprints/Preprint_Text_Preprocessing.pdf
Hash Zip
Hash Zip attempts to store 256 byte blocks by hashing them down to 30 byte blocks. Decompression seems problematic.
UHBC 1.0
UHBC is a blocksorting compressor optimized for high compression ratios. The program uses recent research results by S. Deorowicz and J. Abel for improved second stage processing after the BWT. Some extensions and sophisticated modeling provide top compression ratios, giving the best known result for Calgary Corpus (2.208 bps average). UHBC is free for non-commercial […]
The MPEG Industry Forum
Stated objective: To further the adoption of the MPEG-4 Standard, by establishing MPEG-4 as an accepted and widely used standard among application developers, service providers, content creators and end users..
Update: This group has now changed it’s name to The MPEG Industry Forum, and have expanded their charter to include all emerging MPEG standards. For right […]
Blaze MediaConvert
This product performs a huge number of conversions among different media types. Want to convert your huge collection of MP3 files to WMA? No problem. MPEG-2 to AVI? No problem. MediaConvert even handles some unusal conversions, such as video to animated GIF. And naturally, a huge number of conversions between various image formats, including GIF, […]
Introduction to MMX Programming
An article that gets into the details you need to know about in order to use the MMX instruction set found on Intel processors. The author uses image processing as a demo app.
Winamp OpenSource LCD Plugin for various LCD & VFD modules
With this plugin your copy of Winamp will display track information on an LCD display attached to your PC. Just the thing if you’re looking to set up a jukebox of some kind, maybe in your car. Windows, free.
Plain Simple Zip
Just what the name says, a very simple Zip program for Win32. Registration is $10.
Hawk Software Commercial Speech Codecs
Hawk Software is now selling a pair of codecs, LPC-10 and OpenLPC, that are suitable for Windows CE, CELinux, and other 32-bit embedded platforms. More are planned for future releases.
Windows Media Video 9 VCM
The Video Compression Manager is an add-on from Microsoft that will allow older apps that use AVI containers to use WMA 9 codecs.
Advanced CAB Repair
This tool is touted as being able to repair corrupt CAB files. It scans the file and recovers as much data as possible.
Version 1.1 is shipping as of November, 2003.
Reader Antonio P. says: Relatively useful but very expensive for infrequent use.
