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wmplugins.com
This site describes itself as The ultimate resource for enhancing your Media Player 9 Series for Windows. By this they mean plugins, themes, skins, visualizations, etc.
http://www.wmplugins.com/ID3/mp3info
ID3 (or mp3info as it is called on Sourceforge) is a collection of classes useful for reading ID3-tags and ID3v2-tags as well as technical information on the file like bitrates and playing times. It also includes an API to write ID3 (V1 and V2) tags to an mp3 file.
http://www.ueberdosis.de/java/id3.htmlJPEG 2000 Committee Documents
The JPEG 2000 committee publishes links to some of their documents here. (Notably absent: the standards themselves.) This includes links to standard drafts, press releases, and requirements.
http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg2000/commlinks.htmlDocuments from JPEG Committee Members
The papers pointed to here provide useful background information on the standard. There are seminar papers, tutorials, and other background documents.
http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg2000/memlinks.htmlJPEG 2000 Project Related Links
Links to several projects that are working with JPEG 2000 technology.
http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg2000/projlinks.htmlJPEG 2000 Code and Test Data
This page contains links to sample code and test data for implementing the JPEG 2000 standard. Looking for conformance files? This is the place. Looking for working implementations? You can find several here.
http://www.jpeg.org/jpeg2000/testlinks.htmlJPEG 2000 Metadata
Links to information on JPEG 2000 metadata, include the XML DTD and Schema for the JPEX metadata set.
http://www.jpeg.org/metadata/index.htmlhttpZip
httpZip uses standard algorithms to compress web pages streaming out of your IIS server. This commercial software adds support, installation programs, and administration to provide you with something a cut above some of the free alternatives.
http://www.port80software.com/products/httpzipMicrosoft Portrait Technology Introduction
A short paper with some links that describe the compression algorithm used with Microsoft Portrait, which is a demonstration project for video telephony.
http://research.microsoft.com/~jiangli/portrait/tech.aspxread more from " Microsoft Portrait Technology Introduction "
BonkEnc
BonkEnc is an audio CD ripper and an encoder for various audio formats. It can produce Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and BONK files. More formats are available through plug-ins.
http://www.bonkenc.org/DirectX 9.0 End-user Runtime
Microsoft has released DirectX 9.0, which naturally includes support
for an updated list of audio and video encodings.
The AC3 Audio Compression Standard
This is a copy of the AC3 Audio compression standard from the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC.) It’s nice to see a standards committee that is able to make their documents freely available to the public.
http://www.atsc.org/standards/a_52a.pdfcodecs.org
codecs.org is a meta-project containing a wide range of tools and libraries designed to improve the state of codecs and their optimization. This includes libcodec, which contains routines for forward and reverse DCTs, MPEG motion compensation and estimation, block placement, etc.
http://codecs.org/Fold
A small archiving program using LZH. Fold is the main program, Unfold is a standalone extractor, and Foltoexe creates self extracting archives.
ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/arcers/hold116e.zipDVCAM Format Overview
Sony’s document gives a concise description of DV format video, ranging from mechanical specifications to the details of the compression format. Read this and you will feel like a DV expert.
http://www.sony.ca/dvcam/pdfs/dvcam%20format%20overview.pdfXTREAM
The XTREAM Data Management System (XMS) is a robust, scalable data compression system that offers increased compression ratios and/or reduced compression processing time for efficient data management.
Note: I have to confess that after looking at this web page, I have absolutely no idea what this product does, how one would use it, or what the […]
http://www.cyberoperations.com/products/xtream.htmlWindows Media 9 Final Release
This page has links to download all the various components of Windows Media 9, including the media player, codecs, encoders, embedded toolkits, and more.
http://microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/players.aspxAbsolute HTML Compressor
Absolute HTML Compressor is an award-winning tool that optimizes HTML files so that their size is reduced.
http://www.serpik.com/ahc/Artera Turbo
These guys describe their product as Virtual Broadband, implying that it speeds up your dialup connection to the point that you can’t believe it’s not broadband! It appears that the product routes requests for web pages through their network, sending you to pages that have been compressed using their proprietary techniques.
User Paul was quite pleased […]
http://www.arteraturbo.com/Data Compression Conferences
Jürgen Abel is now tracking conferences which will be covering data compression topics. This listing includes the conference, dates, web page, and submission deadline. You are encouraged to keep Jürgen updated with any new information.
http://www.data-compression.info/Conferences/Recommendation for Space Data Systems Standards
This appears to be the Data Compression Blue Book published by the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems. It’s a nice document, but I’m not sure if the standard described here is actually in use. As is so often the case with standards documents, I find myself yearning for some accompanying reference code. Alas, there […]
http://www.ccsds.org/documents/121x0b1.pdfread more from " Recommendation for Space Data Systems Standards "
Audio and Video Formats
PC Magazine used a jury to compare the codecs used in several popular media players, with interesting results.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,4149,815424,00.asp
