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Roberto’s public listening tests page
Roberto Amorim is a familiar and friendly presence on the Hydrogen Audio board. This link points to the many audio compression listening tests he has conducted. These include evaluations of AAC and MP3 encoders at a rew different rates.
KDar — the KDE Disk archiver
KDar is the KDE Disk Archiver. It is a convenient graphical interface to Denis Corbin’s libdar archiving and backup C++ library. You can safely backup (with compression if you like), view and restore files using KDar, along with a few easy UNIX commands for mounting and burning CD-R’s, Zip and Jazz drives, DVD-R’s, floppies, […]
MP3Sharp: JavaLayer C# Port
A straight-up port of the JavaZoom MP3 library to C#.
rzip
rzip is a compression program, similar in functionality to gzip or bzip2, but able to take advantage long distance redundencies in files, which can sometimes allow rzip to produce much better compression ratios than other programs. The original idea behind rzip is described in my PhD thesis (see http://samba.org/~tridge/), but the implementation in this version […]
QColorQuantizer Gets the Most out of Your Picture
This is a nice article posted on Codeguru.com by Sjaak Priester. In this article Sjaak uses octree color quantization to reduce a JPEG image with millions of colors down to a GIF with 256, as
well as giving you a look or two at Microsoft’s nice GDI+ API.
GIF Construction Set Pro
GIF Construction Set Pro represents the state of the art in GIF animation software. It will assemble your original animations effortlessly through its Animation Wizard, squeeze them down to as close to nothing as possible with its Supercompressor; create eyecatching banners and animated transitions; manage your GIF files; add transparency to existing graphics and a […]
GOPchop
GOPchop is an MPEG2-PS editor that cuts on GOP boundries so that the resulting MPEG2-PS file does not need to be re-encoded when saving the resulting desired frames. It is useful for editing commercials out of MPEG2 TV capture files.
waRmZip
This is a Win32 script that can be used to compress and/or delete files after a certain amount of time. Nice and simple.
Version 1.2 shipped in January, 2004.
Word Replacing Transform
A pre-compression transform by Przemyslaw Skibinski, somewhat along the lines of Star Encoding.
Version 3.0 of this program is shipping as of February, 2004.
kArchiver
An archiver program designed to run under Linux with the KDE desktop. Looks like it supports tar, zip, bz2, and gz files. Released under the GPL.
Version 3.0.10 is shipping as of January, 2004
C Sharp MP3 Compressor
A C# front end for converting WAV files to MP3 format, using the LAME encoder in DLL format.
A C# MPEG1 Image Compression Class
Mike Donovan’s C# class to convert an image to an MPEG-1 I frame.
Archive & Restore
With Archive & Restore, you can save, stow away and restore files easily. Stowing away files will recover space on your hard disk, increase clarity and reduce administration efforts. Saving versions of your files lets you return to a previous state, for example, while developing a project.
RAR Home Page
This seems to be the official home page for RAR and WinRAR. RAR is a high performace archiver that is loved by many.
WinRAR 3.30 is out as of January, 2004.
JPEG 2000 Tools 2.0
Developed in the scope of MIGRATOR 2000 project (www.migrator2000.org), this site presents a graphical user interface to the three currently available codecs (VM, JJ2000, Jasper) as well as validation and parsing services to J2k codestreams and JP2 files.
It’s currently a widely used tool within WG1 (JPEG) to perform compliance tests on coders and codestreams. Site […]
Windows Media High Definition Video
Microsoft thinks Windows Media Video can be a big part of the HD scene. This web page is dedicated to that proposition.
Complearn
Compression is concerned with detecting patterns in order to reduce redundancy. Complearn is an attempt to take that pattern-recognition ability and use it for different ends.
GPL MPEG-1/2 DirectShow Decoder Filter
GPL MPEG-1/2 Decoder is a free DirectShow MPEG decoder filter. It can be used to play MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 streams in any media player based on DirectShow. In addition, it can be used as DVD decoder for unencrypted discs.
(X)MedCon - Medical Image Conversion Utility
A free program to deal with image formats in popular medical formats, including DICOM, SPM, PNG, and GIF.
Version 0.9.1 of (X)MedCon shipped in January, 2004.
Imagero
A Java library that can read a few different image file types. Currently that includes BMP, some TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and more, along with metadata from a few different file types,
Version 1.30 is shipping as of January, 2004
The MLP Lossless Compression System
A paper that details the lossless compression system used in DVD-Audio.
IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4
The IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 consists of a set of JavaTM classes and APIs with five sample applications: three cross-platform playback applications and two tools for generating MPEG-4 content for use with MPEG-4-compliant devices. These applications are as follows:
AVgen: a simple, easy-to-use GUI tool for creating audio/video-only content for ISMA- or 3GPP-compliant devices
XMTBatch: a tool […]
Optimizer
A visual tool that lets you degrade image files with visual feedback on how you are doing. A good, easy way to minimize the size of files before using them on your web page, tec.
Foobar2000
Foobar2000 is a relatively new audio player for Windows PCs. It seems to be attracting a little bit of interest among the literati, perhaps because it is mostly open sourced. It has a nice list of features, including tremendous list of codec support, as well
as some unusual ones, such as the ability to play files […]
WebZIP
This commercial product will zip up entire web sites and download them to your PC. You can then view them off line, at your leisure.
JCALG1
JCALG1 is a small, open-source, LZSS derived compression library.
Features Coded in 100% 32bit x86 assembly language for maximum performance and minimum size.
Good compression ratio, typically much better than ZIP’s deflate.
Extremely small and fast decompressor.
Adjustable window size to allow for faster compression at the cost of compression ratio.
Decompression requires no memory, other than the destination buffer.
Easy […]
Java MP3 Player
Wouldn’t it be great if there was a free MP3 player written in a portable language like Java? These guys certainly think so.
Version 0.4 was shipping in January, 2004.
DCL user comment: Cool.
VideoLan: MPEG and DVD for every OS, free!
A student group in Paris has set themselves the goal of creating a DVD/MPEG player that will work for everyone, everywhere. Linux, Mac, and Win32 ports are available right now. October 2001 sees the release of their player and server software.
VideoLAN is a software project, which produces free software for video, released under the GNU […]
mp3stego
A project that aims to hide information in MP3 files.
Zipdb
ZipDB is a program that allows databases to be made easily and efficiently using compressed zip files. An easy-to-use gui is the key feature allowing quick access to all files in the archive.
