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OggMux
This open source project is an attempt to create a replacement for GraphEdit, a tool Microsoft provides in the DDK.
Windows Media® ASF Viewer 9 Series
Microsoft supplies this free tool as a way for developers to check their files for validity before shipping. Looks like it knows how to inspect ASF, WMA, and WMV files.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/format/ASFViewer.aspx
VBRFix
Will Pye has a program that cleans up some of the problems associated with VBR encoding in MP3 files.
Data Compression Bibliography
The University of Washington has a nice bibliography here, with pointers to books on Data Compression, VQ, Wavelets, and Information Theory.
LZOP
The home page for lzop - a file compressor that is built on the LZO compression library. lzop is free under the GPL.
Version 1.01 of LZOP shipped in April of 2003.
CuteZIP 2.0
Those cute people at globalscape now have a cute zip program. It’s interesting because it not only handles Zip files, but also CAB files.
Version 2.1 shipped in April, 2003, andding strong encryption and command line functionality.
TIS Turbo Virtual Broadband
This system uses data compression and other optimization techniques to speed up your dialup Internet connection. This sytem works with any ISP or provider.
Comp.dsp FAQ: Wavelets
A section from the comp.dsp that talks about wavelets.
Source Coding Matlab Toolbox
John Kieffer from the University of Minnesota has posted a nice library of Matlab code to be used for data compression.
EE 5585: Data Compression
A collection of class notes and links for a University of Minnesota course on Data Compression.
Benchmark Images and Files
David Cary is a major link farmer. One of the sections of his massive Data Compression page has links to various images and files that are used in various benchmarks.
http://agora.rdrop.com/~cary/html/data_compression.html#benchmark
EasyX Video Converter
This shareware Win32 program can convert video files between various formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG w/VCD extensions, and more.
Version 1.10 is shipping as of April, 2003.
Freevo
This is an open source Digital Video Recorder that aims to turn your Linux system into a TiVo equivalent. This is an ambitious project which has already built up a nice feature list. A huge wish list of features-in-waiting is ready for any developers willing to step into the breach.
Version 1.3.2 is shipping as […]
Extended Application of Suffix Trees to Data Compression
By Jesper Larsson, Published in Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference 1996. Hey Jesper, how about putting a PDF version on line?
The Context Trees of Block Sorting Compression
By Jesper Larsson. Published in Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference 1998, PDF version of the paper.
Attack of the Mutant Suffix Trees
By Jesper Larsson. Published in Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference 1998, a PDF version of the paper.
Notes on Suffix Sorting
by Jesper Larsson. Technical report. LU-CS-TR:98-204, LUNFD6/(NFCS-3134)/1-6/(1998). A PDF version of the paper.
Suffix Trees on Words
By Jesper Larsson, Arne Andersson and Kurt Swanson. Technical report. LU-CS-TR:95-158, LUNFD6/(NFCS-3107)/1-14/(1995). Early version of a paper published in Proceedings of the 7th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching 1996; to appear in Algotrithmica
Jesper Larsson’s Research Links
I am a graduate student (doktorand) in algorithms and data structures at the Department of Computer Science at Lund University. Special interests are text searching and data compression.
I use the links on this page to papers, but don’t index the page itself
Easy Way to Read/Write Zip-Compatible Files Under MFC
Larry Leonard has created this CodeProject article with the goal of making it super easy to read and write Zip files from your MFC project. There are some limitations to this project, such as a limit of one file per archive, no disk spanning, and no encryption, but he has definitely made it easy to […]
MP3 Splitter & Joiner
An MP3 editor, lets you split and join MP3 files, as well as creating or modifying ID3 tags.
Version 2.40 shipped in April, 2003.
DVD Boy Player
Your basic Windows media player. DVD Boy Player plays DVDs as well as SVCD, DivX, and MPEG-4 files.
Version 2.1 is shipping as of April, 2003.
LZW Patent Expiration
Drew Scott Daniels was attempting to find out when
all the LZW patents all over the world were
going to expire. This is not as easy as you might think!
Drew was kind enough to forward links to the message
boards where the question was posted. To follow the thread,
go to the bottom of the page and click on […]
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/debian-legal-200303/msg00526.html
ABC - Advanced Blocksorting Compressor
ABC is a free data compression program based on the Burrows-Wheeler transformation. The source code is free for academic, research and educational use as depicted in the Abel Public License (APL). The program is developed in DELPHI as a command line program just like GZIP.
Update: Jürgen has released the source code for ABC at long […]
Apple’s AAC Site
QuickTime 6 was an early adopter of MPEG-4 technology, and they seem to be big believers in the standard. This is in contrast to Microsoft’s Windows Media 9, which uses proprietary codecs to compete with the open standards of MPEG-4. The MPEG-4 standard uses AAC for encoding audio, and Apple has a site
with a few […]
Image & Video Quality Assessment at LIVE
The folks at LIVE conducted a subjective test of images at various compression levels, and have made the results available here. The images and results are both available here.
Redistributing Windows Media 9 Series Components
The rules from Microsoft on what you can and can’t distribute from Windows Media 9.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/RedisWMedC.asp
Jesper Larsson
Jesper Larsson spent a fair amount of his years in academia
studying Suffix Trees. His home page has links to his thesis and a few other papers on suffix trees and other string matching/Data Compression topics.
HTML2Zip
This product compresses your web pages using the gzip format, which is readable by virtually every modern browser. Compressing the pages this way can do a lot to improve your page loading times.
Version 2.0 is shipping in April, 2003.
Mathtools.net - C/C++ Random Numbers
Links to code and tools to create random numbers. Quite useful, and includes some intriguing use of sound cards to provide true (instead of psuedo-random) numbers. Registration required.
