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Unace - extract, test and view .ace archives
The unace utility is used for extracting, testing and viewing the contents of archives created with the ACE archiver.
Binary Delta Compression
From Microsoft: This document describes Binary Delta Compression (BDC) technology and its use in software update deployment. This implementation of BDC technology developed by Microsoft reduces the download size of software update packages by downloading only the differences between old files and new files.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac3dec/
Decodes AC-3 audio from DVDs, or QuickTime audio, and spits back AIFF, MP3, or AAC files.
QuickTime Components Project
This site is dedicated to open source QuickTime development for popular open source audio and video codecs. We are currently working on Ogg Vorbis, an audio codec developed by Xiphophorus, and MNG, an animation video codec.
Rubyzip
Rubyzip is a ruby module for reading and writing zip files.
As of March, 2004, Rubyzip is shipping version 0.5.4
2JPEG
2JPEG is a graphics converter allowing you to convert images to jpeg format from 50+ image file types including conversions from bitmap to jpeg, from gif to jpeg, from tiff to jpeg and so on. The program has no windows interface and is fully optimized for working in background mode.
Media Player Classic
Media Player Classic is similar to Windows Media Player 6.4 but with features pertained to minimalist advanced users. It also supports DirectX 9 and VFW drivers for capture. It supports viewing through ActiveX controls of Real and QuickTime files.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=82303&package_id=84358
WinAmp
WinAmp is a very popular freeware MP3 player for Windows PCs.
WinAmp is shipping version 5.0.3 as of March, 2004.
Package: makeself
makeself is a small shell script that generates a self-extractable archive from a directory. The resulting file appears as a shell script (many of those have a .run suffix), and can be launched as is. The archive will then uncompress itself to a temporary directory and an optional arbitrary command will be executed (for example […]
mjpeg-jpegs
mjpeg-jpegs is a tool for coverting Motion-JPEG files such as the short movies produced by digital cameras to JPEG files and back. Both AVI and QuickTime formats are supported, including audio tracks.
Release 0.1.0 is shipping as of March, 2004
Zipey Pro
Another archiver that supports ACE, ARJ, RAR, ZIP and perhaps more.
Version 3.0 is shipping in March, 2004.
SFX Creator
This program creates a very high secure AES /Serpent/Twofish 256 bit/Blowfish 448 Bit, Mars 1248 Bit and RC6 2048 Bit selfextracting file. The SFX-Header is 41kb-49kb great. This SFX cipher checks whether the decrypting password is correct with a highly secure method, never compromising the key: while a 64 byte random number is created […]
2PNG
2PNG is a graphics converter allowing you to convert images to png format from 50+ image file types including conversions from jpeg to png, from gif to png, from tiff to png and so on. (See the full list of supported formats here.) The program has no windows interface and is fully optimized for working […]
QuickTime Alternative
QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime (.mov .qt) files. This way there is no need to install the offical QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages. The QuickTime plugins include iPIX and QuickTimeVR.
Real Alternative
Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install the official RealPlayer. You do need a media player that is capable of playing RealMedia files. The included Media Player Classic supports it. Supported are RealAudio (.ra .rpm), RealVideo (.rm .ram .rmvb), RealText (.rt), and ReadPix (.rp). Not fully supported are: Streaming […]
MPEGPas
A commercial MPEG video compression library written completely in Pascal (Borland Delphi, source code included). A demo version and the documentation can be downloaded.
Epic24
From the site: Epic24 is a GUI program that I wrote to interactively compare graphic compression codecs against each other. It currently contains JPG, Lossless JPG, JPEG 2000, (Jasper Library Implementation), PNG, John Robinson’s BTP and ATP, and finally my own lossless graphics compression called IMPLODE (IMage Predictive LOssless Decoder Encoder).
APT
APT (Adaptive Prediction Trees) image coding supersedes BTPC (Binary Tree Predictive Coding). It is a general-purpose compression scheme for all types of still image. It does both lossless and lossy compression of monochrome and color images from 1 to 16 bits per component. Its performance on all image types is often close to that of […]
WinHki
WinHki is an archiving tool that understands the usual gamut of formats - compresses 9, decompresses 12, and one of this is its own proprietary HKI format.
A Simple Yet Highly Efficient Compressing Technique
A nice CodeGuru article describing compression of a dictionary.
http://codeguru.com/Cpp/Cpp/algorithms/compression/article.php/c6403/
OutlookZIP
The OutlookZIP it’s an Add-On for Microsoft® Outlook. It makes easy for you to compress the files that you attach to Microsoft® Outlook e-mail messages. OutlookZIP adds three buttons to Outlook toolbar making the usage simple easy. OutlookZIP works only with Outlook 2000, Outlook XP (2002), and Outlook 2003. It does […]
Full-Text Searching & the Burrows-Wheeler Transform
In this article, I examine an indexing method that lets you find any character sequence in the source text in time only proportional to the sequence length using a structure that can compress the entire source text and index into less space than the text alone. This technique is exceptionally fast at detecting and counting […]
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=8944/ddj0312d/0312d.htm?temp=jiRiV3fTQc
Zip and Unzip Using VB5 or VB6
This code shows how to use the freeware InfoZip Zip32.DLL and Unzip32.DLL files from the http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ website. The InfoZip DLL’s are open-source DLL’s that are available for programmers to utilise free of charge. They are standard C DLLs and were very tricky/impossible to interface with VB until VB5/6 offered the ‘addressof’ operator.
http://codeguru.com/vb/gen/vb_graphics/fileformats/article.php/c6743/
cabextract
cabextract is a GPLed program which extracts Microsoft Cabinet (.CAB) archives. It fully supports both the MSZIP and LZX compression formats. It can also extract multi-part archives and self-extracting archives.
Release 1.0 shipped in March, 2004
Tolly Group Report on Adams Platform
Miracle video encoding technology verified by this Australian testing firm.
http://www.tollygroup.com/TS/2003/MediaWorldCom/AdamsPlatform/TollyTS203125MediaWorldOctob
er2003.pdf
Archive
This product seems to have chosen the obvious name, so that’s a good start. It appears to be an archiver for *NIX that can work with tgz, tar, bz2, zip, and jar archives. It’s Python, and it appears to be free.
Version 1.9.4 is shipping in March, 2004.
Replacing a Dictionary with a Square Root
Tom Cagill creates GIF files without using LZW.
The OpenH323 Project
This open source project aims to create a free H.323 stack. The project was started as a reaction to the high cost of commercial implementations of audio and video compression code implementing the various components of H.323. Roger H. adds There are now several useful applications which use the library
including OpenMCU (a reliable multi person […]
JPEG2000, the next millenium compression standard for still
by Maryline Charrier, Diego Santa Cruz and Mathias Larsson. This short paper gives an overview of the JPEG2000 standard, along with a java decoder.
The Benefits and Drawbacks of HTTP Compression
A paper by Timothy McLaughlin that gives an overview of HTTP Compression and tries to decide whether it’s a good thing for not.
http://www3.lehigh.edu/images/userImages/cdh3/Page_3456/LU-CSE-02-002.pdf
