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David Scott’s Bijective Static Entropy Compression

Posted in June 26th, 2002

This compressor is designed to operate on English text - it has a static probability table configured for written English.

http://bijective.dogma.net/compres1bse.htm

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Peribit

Posted in June 25th, 2002

These folks make a box that transparently compresses network traffic. Designed to work on any sort of WAN interface, including T1, E1, ATM, etc. The web site includes an ROI calcuator that will convince you this box will pay for itself!

http://www.peribit.com/

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Flatcompression

Posted in June 23rd, 2002

This open source project is working on an ISAPI compression filter, designed for use with IIS. The project is listed as being in beta status by the maintainer, with hopeful comments for the future in the SourceForge discussion forums.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/flatcompression

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UniquE’s RAR File Library

Posted in June 19th, 2002

The URARFileLib is a small library that allows you to read files from RAR archives created with RAR and WinRAR. Decompression and decryption with full RAR v2.0 compatibility is done directly in your application, thus there is no need for a DLL or any other external file. This file library is based on the free […]

http://www.unrarlib.org/

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PifPaf zip/unzip

Posted in June 12th, 2002

PifPaf zip/unzip is a small and simple drag-and-drop ZIP compressor for MacOS and MacOS X.. PifPaf Mac/Win is a small and simple drag and drop LZW compressor (DiskDoubler type, file’s tree keeping) for MacOS AND Windows (.ssr extension) This is a French language site.

http://croggeo.free.fr/pifpaf/php-forge2/home.php

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A Block-sorting Lossless Data Compression Algorithm

Posted in June 9th, 2002

Burrows, M. and Wheeler, D.J., A Block-sorting Lossless Data Compression Algorithm, Digital Systems Research Center Research Report 124, May 1994. The original paper on BWT compression. This very effective compression technique was first described in this paper.

Michael Schindler reviewed it thus:Even through it is the first paper about blocksort it is still excellent literature for […]

http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/76182.html

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lz.adb

Posted in June 8th, 2002

Ada source for compression based on the LZH package.

http://www.mysunrise.ch/users/gdm/lz__adb.htm

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VCEG ftp server

Posted in June 6th, 2002
Published in Files, Standards, Video

This is described as the ftp server for the Video Coding Experts Group, which is working on H.26L and other video projects. A ton of stuff here, no guideposts or indices, have at it.

ftp://standard.pictel.com/video-site/

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Entropy on the web

Posted in June 6th, 2002

Describe as Some resources of information theory and entropy concepts on the Internet.

http://www.mdpi.org/entropy/entropyweb/entropyweb.htm

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GWIC - GNU Wavelet Image Codec

Posted in June 6th, 2002

From the site: GWIC is a simple, fast and relatively efficient lossy image compression algorithm designed for compression of natural images. Currently both gray scale (8 12 and 16bpp) and RGB-images are supported, but in future support for alpha-channels is planned. GWIC is still in the middle of the designing phase, and thus should not […]

http://www.jole.fi/research/gwic/

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PPM FAQ

Posted in June 6th, 2002

What appears to be a comprehensive FAQ on PPM programming. Russian language, and fairly slow loading, but no reason not to try Google or BabelFish for a translation.

http://www.arctest.narod.ru/descript/ppm-faq.htm

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Amiga compression formats

Posted in June 6th, 2002

A good resource for anyone using compression or writing compression code for the Amiga platform. Includes tutorial and background information as well as links to code.

http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/packers.php3

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AG Information und Komplexität

Posted in June 6th, 2002

A nice set of links to various resources related to info theory and data compression. German language.

http://www.mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de/ahlswede/itlinks_f.html

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Ondolette.com

Posted in June 5th, 2002

A forum dedicated to the discussion of Wavelets. This link takes you to the French language version of the board - click on the “English” link on the left side of the page for English language discussion.

http://www.ondelette.com/

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Daniel Lemire

Posted in June 5th, 2002

Daniel Lemire is a researcher at the National Research Council of Canada. Some of his recent research interest is on wavelet-based prefix sum methods for On-Line Analytic Processing (OLAP). Some of his publications are relevant to compression techniques including a white paper on image compression by wavelets.

http://www.ondelette.com/acadia/

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The CWI Audio File Formats Guide

Posted in June 5th, 2002
Published in Links, Standards, Audio

Useful links to information describing audio file formats.

http://cui.unige.ch/OSG/info/AudioFormats/

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The Wavelet Tutorial

Posted in June 5th, 2002

Supporting material for a Wavelet course at Rowan University. There’s quite a bit of detail here. I don’t know if it stands on its own or whether it only works in conjunction with the course. Please check it out and provide feedback!

http://engineering.rowan.edu/~polikar/WAVELETS/WTtutorial.html

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MPEG Audio Layer-3

Posted in June 4th, 2002

An overview and explanation about MP3 from the folks at Fraunhofer. If you want to get a good overview in a single web page, this might be the spot for you.

http://www.iis.fhg.de/amm/techinf/layer3/index.html

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iVAST

Posted in June 4th, 2002

This company labels itself as “The world leader in end-to-end MPEG-4 Solutions.” Looks like they sell a suite of authoring and encoding tools, and perhaps some server software. Follow the link to “About MPEG-4″ and you’ll get a little bit of text plus some more links.

http://www.ivast.com/

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MPEG-4: The Standard for Digital Media

Posted in June 4th, 2002

Apple has a page with info on MPEG-4. They use this page to explain how this all fits in with QuickTime.

http://www.apple.com/mpeg4/

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Explanation of 2D DCT (Discrete Cosine Transform)

Posted in June 4th, 2002

Notes for an Info Theory course at MIT.

http://www-mtl.mit.edu/Courses/6.095/notes/dct.html

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LZW Examples

Posted in June 4th, 2002

Notes from an Information Theory course at MIT.

http://www-mtl.mit.edu/Courses/6.095/notes/LZW-examples.html

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LZW and GIF explained

Posted in June 4th, 2002

A guy named Steve Blackstock takes a shot at making this all clear to you. Gives some details on the LZW variation used in GIF files.

http://www.cis.udel.edu/%7Eamer/CISC651/lzw.and.gif.explained.html

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Fractal Image Compression

Posted in June 4th, 2002

Online demos of Fractal compression and decompression. Available in English, French, and German.

http://www.eurecom.fr/~image/DEMOS/FRACTAL/

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Distance Coding post

Posted in June 3rd, 2002

A post by Edgar Binder discussing his distance coding algorithm. Distance coding is used in place of the MTF stage in BWT compression.

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=390B6254.D5113AD2%40T-Online.de

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Overview of the Nancy Codec

Posted in June 2nd, 2002

This PDF file provides a two page overview of the Nancy codec and the company that’s behind it, NOA, Inc.

http://datacompression.info/Miscellaneous/LightVideoCodecNancyME.pdf

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Archive Comparsion Test 2.0

Posted in June 2nd, 2002

ACT - by Jeff Gilchrist. ACT is the Archive Comparison Test, a long running benchmark on well known archiving programs. Lots of good updates in May of 2002.

http://compression.ca/

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PPMD var I1

Posted in June 2nd, 2002
Published in Source Code, PPM

From the archive: PPMd program is file-to-file compressor, it is written for embedding in user programs mainly and it is not intended for immediate use. I was interested in speed and performance improvements of abstract PPM model [1-5] only, without […]

ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/ppmdi1.rar

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Nancy Technology

Posted in June 2nd, 2002

Nine slides that provide some description of the Nancy codec. You will have to ask Acrobat Reader to rotate the slides if you are trying to view them on the screen.

http://datacompression.info/Miscellaneous/NancyTechnologymobile.pdf

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Nancy Codec Technology

Posted in June 2nd, 2002

Six more slides describing the Nancy codec.

http://datacompression.info/Miscellaneous/NancyTechnologynetwork.pdf

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