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A Memory-Efficient Huffman Adaptive Coding Algorithm for Very Large Sets of Symbols
This paper describes an adaptive Huffman scheme that is designed to work with large numbers of symbols - at least that’s what the abstract says. The web page indicates that there are executables in the archive, but all I see is a Word document.
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pigeon/programs/programs.html#huffmanPower WMA Recorder
Power WMA Recorder is a program that can create WMA files from any available sound source directly without using any additional disk space. In addition to supporting Microsoft’s WMA format (including the variable bit rate option), Power WMA Recorder can encode directly to MP3 format.
Version 1.34 is shipping in March, 2003.
http://www.cooolsoft.com/wmarecorder.htmArchiving Encrypting Tiny File Splitter
Oleg Z. has created this program to to split, encrypt with your own unique key, compress and restore to original state large files of any type. The author says the program has an intuitive GUI, and works on most Win32 platforms.
Version 1.0.0.1 shipped on March 6, 2003.
http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/62856.shtmlSteven Pigeon’s Phasing In Codes
Coding integers of an arbitrary length is an interesting problem. Steven Pigeon discusses a way to code integers in a very efficient manner, which approaches the optimal Log2(n) value.
http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pigeon/Why Can’t One Image Coder Rule?
Alex Ng posed the question on comp.compression: “In general, you cannot have one image coder can compress well for ALL
images. Why?”
This set off a lively and somewhat useful discussion, with lots of thoughtful posts from Thomas Richter and others. Always good to find some intelligent thought on the compression newsgroup.
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=b3kjij%244ok1%40imsp212.netvigator.comEZ Transcoder
EZ Transcoder is a wrapper for three pass encoding with mencode designed specifically for transcoding existing MPEG2 files (such as those captured by a TV Capture card) to DivX/MPEG4 format. It is currently a perl console app.
EZ Transcoder 0.2 shipped in March, 2003.
ezConverter
ezConverter is a program that is designed to make it easy to convert your audio files between various formats. Converts between WMA, MP3, MPEG, and many more formats. ezConverter also takes input directly from your sound card, allowing you to record from analog inputs or from the output of other programs. The publisher advertises it […]
http://ezc.goldlimit.com/index.htmXbox Media Player
Your Microsoft Xbox is a great gaming platform, but it also has the capability to do much more. What a bargain it would be if you could use it as a digital media player, serving up MP3 files across the network, perhaps with nice videos on the high-definition outputs. All this becomes possible with just […]
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/newweb/news_latest.phpProGATE
Enbaya makes a product called ProGATE that is used to compress 3D graphics and animations for game developers.
http://www.enbaya.com/html/Products.htmFairStars Recorder
This Win32 program is designed to work directly with your sound card, allowing you to record audio from virtually any source and any program. It makes it into DataCompression.info because it will encode directly to MP3 format.
Version 1.05 is shipping as of March, 2003.
http://www.fairstars.com/overview/index.htm