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SlipStream Internet Acceleration
SlipStream Data, using our patented proprietary data compression algorithm, provides Service Providers and Corporations with solutions that reduce bandwidth and increase the speed of Internet access using dial-up and wireless connections.
Version 3.0 of SlipStream is shipping in May, 2003.
kavi2svcd
This is an Open Source Linux project that lets you create SVCDs from AVI or MPEG input. It provides a nice GUI front end all the way through the process, including burning the CD.
CodeProject archiver - targets files and/or Win32 resources
This CodeProject article presents an archiver that moves files in and out of an archive, and will extract from resources as well. It doesn’t support the standard Zip format, and in a blinding flash of frankness, the author says The code is crap but it works and I couldn’t find it done anywhere else.
HTMLCompact
HTMLCompact is a commercial program that squeezes your HTML pages, giving you faster downloads and increased user retention. It appears that this is done using some sort of compression that is executed in JavaScript.
Version 2.0 of this product is shipping as of August, 2003.
Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov
This site is dedicated to the Centennial of Andrei Nikolaevich Kolmogorov, a leading light in the field of complexity. The site contains the information for a conference being held in his honor in Moscow during June, 2003.
CodeProject: Compress Data
A new article on The CodeProject describing code to compress/decompress to/from an ISequentialStream interface. Code is supplied to implement this for Cfile and CByteArray. The compression itself is done via zlib. The rationale for this project is that the author needed cookbook code that worked with MFC objects.
MagicEyes MMSP-2
The MMSP-2 chip has been developed by MagicEyes for use in consumer products. It can decode MPEG-1, -2, and -4 as well as various audio codecs. While you’re asking, yes, it has an LCD controller, a Poly Wavetable sound synthesizer, and more.
ZIP archive file format
Marco Schmidt has assembled a nice page of links and information on the Zip archive format. A few good links, but this isn’t the comprehensive guide you need to answer any question about the format.
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/6686/zip-archive-file-format.html
Zip Assistant
Zip Assistant is a vanilla Win32 archive program, which appears to be slanted towards the novice user who might need a bit of handholding. The web page does say that advanced users will appreciate some features as well, and the feature list does include disk spanning, SFX files, and more.
Version 4.6 is shipping as of […]
C Library to search over compressed texts
A team from the University of Pisa in Italy have created a set of two libraries to demonstrate the ability to perform searches in compressed text. The code is packaged as two LGPL libraries: HuffwLib and CGrepLib, and sample programs are available on the site for demonstration purposes.
Freedom Audio
FreedomAudio is a free Open Source package that lets you stream MP3 and Ogg Vorbis files from your web site. It renders audio using a small Java plugin. The nice part about using a plugin is that you only have to download an install this once. Freedom Audio also now supports a plugin-free mode, […]
gtranscode
From the web site: gtranscode is a GTK+ GUI (graphical use interface) front-end for transcode in order to make this powerful tool easier to use. transcode is a powerful video and audio processing tool that can read in just about any format of video and/or audio and convert to just as many different formats. […]
crip
From the web site:crip is a terminal-based ripper/encoder/tagger tool for creating Ogg Vorbis/FLAC/MP3 files under UNIX/Linux. It is well-suited for someone seeking to make a lot of files from CDs and have them all properly labeled and professional-quality. One thing to note is that the author of this free package has removed MP3 support, and […]
Xceed App Note: Memory to Memory compression in VB
This app note describes how to compress data from memory to memory when using Xceed components in VB.
Back4Win Backup Software
A backup program that uses the standard Zip format for compression. Yes, you can do backups with just a Zip program, but then you wouldn’t get all the cool options here, including disk spanning options, a nice GUI, password options, and more. This product comes in a freeware and shareware version.
Back4Win 2.5 and Back4Win 2.7 […]
Audio File Format FAQ
This FAQ provides good information about various audio file formats, which naturally includes quite a few compressed formats. It also has a few links to other relevant pages.
Lossless Audio Compression
This document describes a lossless audio compressor that does some straightforward prediction in combination with a Rice coder. This is credited to Matt Ashland, author of the Monkey’s Audio codec.
YAAI - Yet Another Avi Info
From the site: Yet Another Avi Info is one of the best tools to display information about your avi files. You can see data like the framerate, the used codecs, the running time, the author information and the exact bitrate of video and audio. You can also synchronize your video and audio stream in a […]
Media Wizard
Description from the web site: Media Wizard is a powerful, all-in-one multimedia application supporting playback of all popular formats, audio and video conversions (CD to WAV; CD to MP3; CD to WMA; CD to OGG, WAV to MP3; MP3 to WAV; WAV/MP3 to WMA; WMA to WAV/MP3; WAV/MP3 to OGG; OGG to WAV/MP3; WAV/MP3 to […]
AVI-GIF
This is a batch image converter that lets you go back and forth between AVI and GIF. I don’t know what the practical limits are on the size of animated GIF files, but I’ve seen some pretty cool short videos in the format. This looks to be the way to create them.
Release 1.09 shipped on […]
What is D-Gap Compression?
BitMagic is a C++ library that deals with dynamic bit vectors. It supports a couple of different ways to compress these bit vectors. This page discusses D-Gap Compression.
Bitmagic Hierarchical Compression
BitMagic is a C++ library that deals with dynamic bit vectors. It supports a couple of different ways to compress these bit vectors. This page explains how to perform common operations on bit vectors while they are compressed in memory.
Dmitry Shkarin
Dmitry Shkarin is the author of the PPMD compressor. His homepage has links to to versions A-I of the compressor as of April, 2003. This page is in Russian, but I find that running it through
BabelFish produces a usuable translation.
All Converter
Yet another conversion program: All Converter is a powerful, all-in-one, multimedia application converting the media files among the most popular media formats.With All Converter,you can convert MP3 to WAV,MP3 to WMA ,MP3 to OGG,MP3 to VQF, WAV to MP3,WAV to WMA,WAV to OGG,WAV to VQF,WMA to MP3, WMA to OGG,WMA to VQF,OGG to MP3,OGG to […]
Zipbit
Zipbit is yet another inexpensive Win32 archiver with support for a wide range of archive types. Creates SFX files, integrates with Windows Explorer, and has localized versions for English, German, and Russian.
Version 1.05 is shipping as of April, 2003.
Media Digitalizer
This appears to be a tool that is designed to aid you in the process of digitizing your LPs and cassettes to your PC. It will export to MP3 format, which explains its presence here.
ZipForward
This program appears to be a decompressor only - it lets you look at the contents of a Zip file, but doesn’t give you a way to manipulate the contents. It offers the ability to preview files from inside the Zip file, and has a mysterious feature that I don’t understand:
ZipForward™ can burn your package […]
Grundlagen des Burrows-Wheeler-Kompressionsalgorithmus
This is another German preprint of Jürgen Abel describing the principles of the Burrows-Wheeler Compression Algorithm. An
implementation of a BWT based compressor with a compression rate of 2.25 bps on the Calgary Corpus is presented. The paper will be
published in the German journal “Informatik - Forschung und Entwicklung”, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, Association for Informatics
(Gesellschaft für Informatik […]
http://www.data-compression.info/JuergenAbel/Preprints/Preprint_Grundlagen_BWCA.pdf
ezMPEG
ezMPEG is an easy-to-use and easy-to-understand MPEG1 video encoder API. The author says I started this project because I wanted to know how MPEG works and the best way to learn it is to implement my own encoder. So I downloaded the ISO specs and began to read and code. My implementation doesn’t have the […]
Windows Media 9 Authoring Utilities
Creating Audio and Video content with Windows Media 9 is made possible by the authoring tools listed on this page. At the time this is entered, the list of tools includes:
Lossless to PCM Converter
Mono to Multichannel Wave Combiner
Video Compression Manager
Plug-in for Adobe Premiere 6.5
Windows Media 9 Capture
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/utilities.aspx
