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DirectShow MediaPlayer in C#
This article shows how to play a Media File in a C# Windows Application.
http://www.codeproject.com/cs/media/directshowmediaplayer.asp
Stuffit Deluxe
Stuffit is the archiver of choice for those on the Apple platforms. Stuffit has been running on MacOS and OS/X for years, and over time added support for Windows, Linux, and Solaris. Stuffit comes in standard and deluxe versions, with a trial download available for the standard edition.
Version 8.0.2 shipped in December, 2003
Yuval Fisher’s Fractal Links
A very comprehensive page of links from Yuval Fisher, who is right there in the middle of the whole fractal business. This page features a glut of links to papers, bibliographies, books, conferences, and software. You can’t go wrong here.
GAO Research Modem Software
GAO Research sells modem software for quite a few different platforms, including a big batch of DSP parts. Naturally, this includes modules to perform both V.42bis and V.44 data compression.
http://www.gaoresearch.com/products/modemsoftware/modemsoftware.php
GAO Research Speech Codec Software
GAO Research sells speech codecs for quite a few different platforms, including a big batch of DSP parts. They support a wide varity of ITU formats, including G.729, G.711, G.722, and more.
http://www.gaoresearch.com/products/speechsoftware/speechsoftware.php
Windows Media Player 9 Series Software Development Kit
The Microsoft® Windows Media® Player 9 Series Software Development Kit (SDK) provides information and tools to customize Windows Media Player and to use the Windows Media Player ActiveX® control. This documentation also provides information about using Windows Media metafiles.
ARJ Software Downloads
This page has the official releases of ARJ, UNARJ, JAR, and so on. This includes the free source to UNARJ and the ARJ32 command line archiver.
ARJ32 version 3.11 was shipping as of 12/2003.
ARJ version 2.82 was shipping as of 12/2003.
LuraDocument.jpm PdfCompressor
The LuraDocument.jpm PdfCompressor is a Windows application that can be used to automatically (Server version) or manually convert scanned documents to higly compressed PDF files. The supported input formats are TIFF, JPEG, BMP and PNM.
http://www.algovision-luratech.com/products/luradocument_jpm/pdf/
DAR - Disk Archive
A command line program for making backups of directory trees and files. This freeware is ported to Linux, Windows, and Solaris.
Version 2.0.2 shipped in December, 2003.
FlacPack - Free lossless instrument file compression
This project aims to define a standard for the lossless compression of MIDI patch files. From the title, you might guess that the lossless audio compression is performed using FLAC - other binary data is compressed w/zlib.
PVDTools
A set of tools to convert video to/from the VideoNow Disc Player proprietary format.
A Basic Media Player
This project on the the Code Project web site shows you how to build a roll-your-own media player for Win32, using the standard multimedia API.
CRC Encoding
Marcel de Wijs has written an article on creating CRC codes in C#.
Azguard
Another backup program that is based around the Zip standard. Supports deflate64, spanning, and other advanced Zip features. This is Win32 shareware.
Version 2.5.4.53 shipped in December, 2003.
7-ZIP Archiver
A command line archiving program for manipulating zip files. 7-zip features great compression ratios, support for quite a few other archive formats, and is free.
DataCompression.info user Gregg A. had this to say: 7-Zip is a great archiver that works with many of the popular archive formats, as well as a new one of its own. […]
MFFM Bit Stream
A C++ hierarchy that is designed to efficiently read and write bit streams. Needless to say, this is quite useful for compression programs.
Version 1.0 shipped in December, 2003.
ReallyRareWares
From the launch:
Hello, and be welcome to ReallyRareWares, a site for researchers (or nostalgic people like me) that miss the old days of multimedia encoding. Here you’ll find reviews and history of old software (encoders and decoders), deceased codecs (VQF, ePAC), oddities (AUPECg2, Astrid AAC), and so on, as well as downloads.
w3compiler
This is a compiler for web pages, that uses various techniques to squeeze the fat out of your web pages. This includes things a simple as white-space reduction and as complex as JavaScript compression.
Ron M. had this to say: This is a great program, very highly recommended for Web developers. It lets you write […]
ZLib.Ada.
ZLib.Ada is a thick binding to the popular compression/decompression library ZLib. It is providing Ada style access to the ZLib C library.
Star Encoding in C++
Star Encoding performs some preprocessing on text files, enabling standard compressors to do somewhat better on the files. This article explains the transform and provides some sample code.
FlyZip
FlyZip is a compressor designed to help you save space on your Palm O/S device, including Palm-based phones.
FlyZip XR 3.02 shipped in December, 2003.
Attachments Zip Compressor
This commercial product takes care of managing your attachments. It appears to do
this transparently, so you don’t even have to think about zipping up a big
attachment before sending.
BitJazz Compression Software Links
The folks at BitJazz maintain a nice list of links to data compression directories. That makes this page sort of a meta-directory.
http://www.bitjazz.com/bitjazz/links/compression_software.shtml
Michael Dipperstein’s LZSS Code Page
Michael Dipperstein describes his personal quest for understanding and implementation of LZSS coding. Full source included.
TurboIIS
A server and download accelerator for your Microsoft web server. The site says that TurboIIS is an advanced component for Microsoft Internet Information Servers, designed specifically with the aim of lowering band consumption, accelerating download times of static and dynamic content, and preventing redundant access to database resources. 30 day trial download available!
Reader Alfred S. […]
JPEG Enhancer
This product fixes artifacts and defects in your JPEG images.
Version 1.0 shipped in December, 2003.
Advanced GIF Optimizer
This program is designed to help you squeeze the maximium amount of space out of GIF files while keeping the image quality at an acceptable level. Commercial code, but a free download is available.
Version 4.0 is shipping as of December, 2003.
Zlib
The zlib home page. zlib is a free software package that implements the deflate compression algorithm popularized in PKWare’s PKZIP product. zlib is designed to be patent free, and is free or restrictions.
Version 1.2.1 is shipping as of December, 2003.
Ziproxy
This is a web proxy that compresses pages using standard gzip compression, making them a lot smaller for serving up over low-speed connections. Not only does it convert text to gzip encoding, it also converts images to low-quality JPEGs for maximum space savings.
Version 1.3b is shipping as of November, 2003.
BJWFlate
A compressor that is designed to create the smallest possible deflate-compatible Zip files.
