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gtranscode

Posted in April 15th, 2003

From the web site: gtranscode is a GTK+ GUI (graphical use interface) front-end for transcode in order to make this powerful tool easier to use. transcode is a powerful video and audio processing tool that can read in just about any format of video and/or audio and convert to just as many different formats. […]

http://fuzzymonkey.org/newfuzzy/software/gtranscode/

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crip

Posted in April 15th, 2003

From the web site:crip is a terminal-based ripper/encoder/tagger tool for creating Ogg Vorbis/FLAC/MP3 files under UNIX/Linux. It is well-suited for someone seeking to make a lot of files from CDs and have them all properly labeled and professional-quality. One thing to note is that the author of this free package has removed MP3 support, and […]

http://bach.dynet.com/crip/index.html

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Xceed App Note: Memory to Memory compression in VB

Posted in April 15th, 2003

This app note describes how to compress data from memory to memory when using Xceed components in VB.

http://www.zipcomponent.com/ref/compress_vb.htm

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Back4Win Backup Software

Posted in April 15th, 2003

A backup program that uses the standard Zip format for compression. Yes, you can do backups with just a Zip program, but then you wouldn’t get all the cool options here, including disk spanning options, a nice GUI, password options, and more. This product comes in a freeware and shareware version.

Back4Win 2.5 and Back4Win 2.7 […]

http://www.alistairgeorge.com/b4win/

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Audio File Format FAQ

Posted in April 14th, 2003

This FAQ provides good information about various audio file formats, which naturally includes quite a few compressed formats. It also has a few links to other relevant pages.

http://www.cnpbagwell.com/audio.html

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Lossless Audio Compression

Posted in April 14th, 2003

This document describes a lossless audio compressor that does some straightforward prediction in combination with a Rice coder. This is credited to Matt Ashland, author of the Monkey’s Audio codec.

http://www.monkeysaudio.com/theory.html

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YAAI - Yet Another Avi Info

Posted in April 14th, 2003

From the site: Yet Another Avi Info is one of the best tools to display information about your avi files. You can see data like the framerate, the used codecs, the running time, the author information and the exact bitrate of video and audio. You can also synchronize your video and audio stream in a […]

http://yaai.sourceforge.net/

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Media Wizard

Posted in April 14th, 2003

Description from the web site: Media Wizard is a powerful, all-in-one multimedia application supporting playback of all popular formats, audio and video conversions (CD to WAV; CD to MP3; CD to WMA; CD to OGG, WAV to MP3; MP3 to WAV; WAV/MP3 to WMA; WMA to WAV/MP3; WAV/MP3 to OGG; OGG to WAV/MP3; WAV/MP3 to […]

http://www.cdhnow.com/mw.html

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AVI-GIF

Posted in April 14th, 2003

This is a batch image converter that lets you go back and forth between AVI and GIF. I don’t know what the practical limits are on the size of animated GIF files, but I’ve seen some pretty cool short videos in the format. This looks to be the way to create them.

Release 1.09 shipped on […]

http://www.realmultimedia.net/avi-gif.htm

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What is D-Gap Compression?

Posted in April 14th, 2003

BitMagic is a C++ library that deals with dynamic bit vectors. It supports a couple of different ways to compress these bit vectors. This page discusses D-Gap Compression.

http://bmagic.sourceforge.net/dGap.html

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Bitmagic Hierarchical Compression

Posted in April 14th, 2003

BitMagic is a C++ library that deals with dynamic bit vectors. It supports a couple of different ways to compress these bit vectors. This page explains how to perform common operations on bit vectors while they are compressed in memory.

http://bmagic.sourceforge.net/hCompression.html

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Dmitry Shkarin

Posted in April 14th, 2003

Dmitry Shkarin is the author of the PPMD compressor. His homepage has links to to versions A-I of the compressor as of April, 2003. This page is in Russian, but I find that running it through
BabelFish produces a usuable translation.

http://compression.ru/ds/

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All Converter

Posted in April 14th, 2003

Yet another conversion program: All Converter is a powerful, all-in-one, multimedia application converting the media files among the most popular media formats.With All Converter,you can convert MP3 to WAV,MP3 to WMA ,MP3 to OGG,MP3 to VQF, WAV to MP3,WAV to WMA,WAV to OGG,WAV to VQF,WMA to MP3, WMA to OGG,WMA to VQF,OGG to MP3,OGG to […]

http://www.allconverter.com/

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Zipbit

Posted in April 14th, 2003

Zipbit is yet another inexpensive Win32 archiver with support for a wide range of archive types. Creates SFX files, integrates with Windows Explorer, and has localized versions for English, German, and Russian.

Version 1.05 is shipping as of April, 2003.

http://www.zipbit.com/

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Media Digitalizer

Posted in April 14th, 2003

This appears to be a tool that is designed to aid you in the process of digitizing your LPs and cassettes to your PC. It will export to MP3 format, which explains its presence here.

http://www.digitope.com/digitalizer/index.htm

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ZipForward

Posted in April 14th, 2003
Published in Commercial Programs, Zip

This program appears to be a decompressor only - it lets you look at the contents of a Zip file, but doesn’t give you a way to manipulate the contents. It offers the ability to preview files from inside the Zip file, and has a mysterious feature that I don’t understand:

ZipForward™ can burn your package […]

http://www.alcena.com/zipforward.html

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Grundlagen des Burrows-Wheeler-Kompressionsalgorithmus

Posted in April 14th, 2003

This is another German preprint of Jürgen Abel describing the principles of the Burrows-Wheeler Compression Algorithm. An
implementation of a BWT based compressor with a compression rate of 2.25 bps on the Calgary Corpus is presented. The paper will be
published in the German journal “Informatik - Forschung und Entwicklung”, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, Association for Informatics
(Gesellschaft für Informatik […]

http://www.data-compression.info/JuergenAbel/Preprints/Preprint_Grundlagen_BWCA.pdf

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ezMPEG

Posted in April 14th, 2003

ezMPEG is an easy-to-use and easy-to-understand MPEG1 video encoder API. The author says I started this project because I wanted to know how MPEG works and the best way to learn it is to implement my own encoder. So I downloaded the ISO specs and began to read and code. My implementation doesn’t have the […]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ezmpeg/

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Windows Media 9 Authoring Utilities

Posted in April 9th, 2003

Creating Audio and Video content with Windows Media 9 is made possible by the authoring tools listed on this page. At the time this is entered, the list of tools includes:

Lossless to PCM Converter
Mono to Multichannel Wave Combiner
Video Compression Manager
Plug-in for Adobe Premiere 6.5
Windows Media 9 Capture

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/encoder/utilities.aspx

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LuraDocument

Posted in April 8th, 2003

LuraDocument represents an innovative compression software custom-tailored to the compression of scanned color documents composed of both images and text. The documents are partitioned into pure picture and pure text segments through the use of its state-of-the-art segmentation algorithm. Each of these segments is then compressed using an algorithm optimized for this type of […]

http://www.algovision-luratech.com/products/luradocument/

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Incompressible String

Posted in April 8th, 2003

The definition from the NIST Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures.

http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/incompressbl.html

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WMA MP3 Recorder

Posted in April 8th, 2003

WMA MP3 Recorder turns your computer into complete audio recording studio. You can record sound from any internal or external source into WMA/MP3 format sound file directly without use additional disk space.

Version 5.60 is shipping as of April, 2003

http://mp3-wma-recorder.com/

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Welcome to Advanced RealMedia Repair Homepage

Posted in April 7th, 2003

Advanced RealMedia Repair is a package that will help you repair your broken RealMedia files. Supports both video and audio files.

http://www.rm-repair.com/

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Easy Video Joiner

Posted in April 7th, 2003

This commercial program is used to join multiple video files into a single file. Supported video formats include MPEG, RM, and Windows Media.

Version 5.01 shipped in March, 2003.

http://www.doeasier.org/joiner/

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How File Compression Works

Posted in April 7th, 2003

The How Stuff Works web site tackles the question of just how Data Compression works, pitched to the general audience. All in all not a bad stab at it, with links to may other How Stuff Works pages for the curious.

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/file-compression.htm

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Windows Media Video 9 Video Compression Manager

Posted in April 7th, 2003

This tool lets you package content encoded with the Series 9 codecs in traditional AVI containers. Future applications should use the ASF file container, but legacy apps may be constrained to the AVI format. This tool allows the old and the new to work together.

This tool was shipping in a Beta version as of April, […]

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/9series/codecs/vcm.aspx

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Kolmogorov Complexity

Posted in April 5th, 2003

The definition from the NIST Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures.

http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/kolmogorov.html

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K-ary Huffman Encoding

Posted in April 5th, 2003

The definition from the NIST Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures.

http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/karyHuffman.html

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Cyclic Redundancy Check

Posted in April 5th, 2003

The definition from the NIST Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures.

http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/cyclicRedundancyCheck.html

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Suffix Tree

Posted in April 5th, 2003

The definition from the NIST Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures.

http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/suffixtree.html

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