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Power WMA Recorder
Power WMA Recorder is a program that can create WMA files from any available sound source directly without using any additional disk space. In addition to supporting Microsoft’s WMA format (including the variable bit rate option), Power WMA Recorder can encode directly to MP3 format.
Version 1.34 is shipping in March, 2003.
Archiving Encrypting Tiny File Splitter
Oleg Z. has created this program to to split, encrypt with your own unique key, compress and restore to original state large files of any type. The author says the program has an intuitive GUI, and works on most Win32 platforms.
Version 1.0.0.1 shipped on March 6, 2003.
Steven Pigeon’s Phasing In Codes
Coding integers of an arbitrary length is an interesting problem. Steven Pigeon discusses a way to code integers in a very efficient manner, which approaches the optimal Log2(n) value.
Why Can’t One Image Coder Rule?
Alex Ng posed the question on comp.compression: “In general, you cannot have one image coder can compress well for ALL
images. Why?”
This set off a lively and somewhat useful discussion, with lots of thoughtful posts from Thomas Richter and others. Always good to find some intelligent thought on the compression newsgroup.
EZ Transcoder
EZ Transcoder is a wrapper for three pass encoding with mencode designed specifically for transcoding existing MPEG2 files (such as those captured by a TV Capture card) to DivX/MPEG4 format. It is currently a perl console app.
EZ Transcoder 0.2 shipped in March, 2003.
ezConverter
ezConverter is a program that is designed to make it easy to convert your audio files between various formats. Converts between WMA, MP3, MPEG, and many more formats. ezConverter also takes input directly from your sound card, allowing you to record from analog inputs or from the output of other programs. The publisher advertises it […]
Xbox Media Player
Your Microsoft Xbox is a great gaming platform, but it also has the capability to do much more. What a bargain it would be if you could use it as a digital media player, serving up MP3 files across the network, perhaps with nice videos on the high-definition outputs. All this becomes possible with just […]
ProGATE
Enbaya makes a product called ProGATE that is used to compress 3D graphics and animations for game developers.
FairStars Recorder
This Win32 program is designed to work directly with your sound card, allowing you to record audio from virtually any source and any program. It makes it into DataCompression.info because it will encode directly to MP3 format.
Version 1.05 is shipping as of March, 2003.
Miliki Super Compressor Professional
This product is advertised as a revolutionary compression package from QuickCAT Technologies. It comes in two versions: a Pro package that compresses documents and images, and a Basic version that compresses only images.
Free DCL Decompressor
Mark Adler built a decompressor that is able to read streams built with PKWare’s Data Compression Library. Since PKWare hasn’t released source for DCL, this is a very good thing, and free to boot.
LZOP Binary Download Site
The author created this site to make LZOP readily available. The page has links to download binaries, plus links to other LZO and LZOP sites.
JP’s Wavelet Compression Page
A recent post to comp.compression had a pointer to this page, identifying it as a source of H.263 software. Sure enough, if you scroll down to the bottom of the page you’ll find links to an H.263 decoder, plus a Windows H.263 player. Not to mention some Wavelet code from JP, and a few other […]
Bzip2 classes
Gilad Novik created a pair of classes to compress and decompress data using the bzip2 format.
OpenJaz
Driver and software for the jazPiper(tm) MP3 player.
Bloat
Bloat is a Perl script which analyses an archive’s filename and extracts it using a suitable extractor.
EzZip Suitcase
This product bills itself as the “Ultimate Multilingual User Friendly” compression tool. The usual Zip features plus support for six different languages. Fifteen day free trial download.
Reader Donald J. says Excellent zip utility and definitely the easiest I have ever used.
Arithmetic Coding Revisited: A New Floating Point Technique
Anand Jain discusses his new technique for arithmetic coding. An executable file is included, but no source code.
BigSpeed Zip DLL
A complete Zip compression library for Win32 programmers in a 50K DLL.
Version 3.02 of this DLL shipped in May of 2002.
CAM Unzip
A free unzip program for Win32. This is currently on release 4.0, but I’m not sure when it shipped.
BigSpeed Zip OCX
BigSpeed Zip OCX is a multi-threaded, fully self-contained ActiveX control, which lets you add zipping and unzipping capabilities to any 32-bit Windows application.
Version 2.1.0.26 of this library shipped in March of 2001.
mod_zipvfs
mod_zipvfs is an Apache2 module, that gives the httpd server the ability to read and browse zipped archives and allows traversal of their content like a virtual filesystem. It is very useful for browsing large html-based documentation without need of decompressing.
Data Compression - Systematisation
T. Strutz offers up an overview and taxonomy of Data Compression. If you’re looking for the big picture, this might be a good place to start. A PowerPoint presentation is available for download as well - might be just the thing if you only have an hour left to prepare that lecture!
http://www-nt.e-technik.uni-rostock.de/~ts/Datacompression/compression.html
Compressia
Compressia is a BWT-based archive utility with particularly high compression ratios. On Calgary, Canterbury, ACT-Text and ACT-Exe it surpasses all other BWT utilities. On Canterbury corpus it also surpasses all PPM utilities. Beta version 1.0 is available on the web site as of February, 2003.
DataCompression.info reader Juan L. said It is by far the […]
ArchiveXP 2003
An archiver that supports 31 formats. ArchiveXP uses the 7-Zip compression format to handily beat Zip-based compressors when it comes to archive size.
SP83 of ArchiveXP 2003 was released in January of 2003.
LuraWave OCX-SDK
The LuraWave OCX is an OLE-Control ready to be integrated into numerous development environments such as MS Visual C++, MS Visual Basic, Borland Delphi, and several of the MS Office components. This product allows you to easily load and decompress Lurawave images, as well as converting to/from TIFF and BMP formats. A demo version is […]
http://www.algovision-luratech.com/products/lurawave/ocx_sdk
Guntar - Uncompress Untar tool
From the SourceForge site:
Guntar is the lazy man’s decompression, untar, utility. Do you download a lot of source? Do you keep forgetting the tar flags to decompress zipped archives? If so Guntar is for you.
Looks as though the 0.4.2 beta release of Guntar shipped at the end of January, 2003.
DVDx
DVDx is a tool that allows you to convert DVD to VCD2.0 , SCVD1.0 or AVI (DivX…) in one step (Including multiplexing, splitting). It produces good quality movies in AVI , MPEG1/2 format and you don’t need to have 5GB or more free on your hard disk. DVDx has been designed especially for inexperienced users, […]
PKZIP
PKWare’s page for PKZip. Currently offering four flavors of PKZip for Windows, and a big mess of versions for UNIX.
Version 6.0 of PKZip appears of have shipped in January of 2003.
THBJpeg2000
This product is an addon to the THBImage Library. The Library is available as either a DLL or OCX, and supports a wide variety of image formats and operations. An 30-day evaluation version is available for download.
