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kdc2tiff
Software to convert the proprietary KDC files produced by Kodak digital cameras into JPEG or TIFF format. Appears to work under Linux only.
http://kdc2tiff.sourceforge.net/CHM2PDF Pilot
Convert your CHM help files from Microsoft to Adobe’s PDF format. This is shareware that runs on Win32 platforms.
http://www.colorpilot.com/chm2pdf.htmlPATRICIA trie implementation
This CodeProject article describes the development of a PATRICIA trie in the .NET framework. The actual code is written in C#, but naturally, it can be used with any of the .NET languages.
http://codeproject.com/useritems/PatriciaTrie.aspUFUP
UFUP advertises itself as a “decompression utility that handles common Unix package formats such as bzip2, gzip, and tar.”
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ufup/Maaate: The Australian audio analysis toolkit
Maaate consists of a set of libraries that let you analyze the audio streams encoded in MPEG files. Besides simply parsing the audio out of MPEG files, it also does some sort of energy detection, silence analysis and more. But reading between the lines I think this library’s strength is supposed to be a nice […]
http://www.cmis.csiro.au/maaate/read more from " Maaate: The Australian audio analysis toolkit "
Robert Estes
Robert Estes (UCDavis - image compression research). Robert has pointers to many of his papers on this page. He has info on Wavelet-based image compression, image compression, plus some peripherally related topics such as image quality.
http://msp.cipic.ucdavis.edu/~estes/Polar Zip 5.0
Polar Zip is a Win32 component that provides all the compression and archiving features you could ever need. Use with any development environment that can accept an ActiveX control.
Polar has added a .NET version of their Zip component in May, 2003.
http://www.polarsoftware.com/iRad: DICOM viewer for OS X
iRad is an open source project written to view DICOM files
on your Mac systems running OS X. For those of you not in
the know, DICOM is a set of standards for storing and accessing
medical imagery. It is written to help with the unique requirements
that the medical industry has for imaging.
Version 1.4 is shipping in a […]
http://irad.sourceforge.net/CleanZipAndGo
This is a somewhat unique utility that will only be useful to those of you working on Visual Studio programming projects. Running it erases all your temporary project files, then zips up all the leftovers so you can backup your work.
http://codeproject.com/file/CleanZipAndGo.aspAVI File Support Library
This open source project gives you the ability to read and write AVI files under Linux. The really interesting part about all that is that this is done using the Win32 DLLs from Microsoft to do the compression and decompression. Clever!
The avifile component is shipping version 0.7.37 as of May, 2003.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/avifile/Making Windows Media Player Plug-ins Work Together
An article on MSDN describing the plugin architecture of Windows Media Player 9.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnwmt/html/Connect_plugins.aspread more from " Making Windows Media Player Plug-ins Work Together "
Gr8 Player
A free Win32 media player that can handle quite a few popular audio and video formats.
Reader Brian H. says: Incredibly fast, and has just the features that I need.
http://www.madebyhenry.com/player/Advanced Zip Repair
Advanced Zip Repair(AZR) is a powerful tool to repair corrupted Zip and self-extracting(SFX) files. It can recover your data in Zip archives as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption.
Version 1.6 is shipping in May, 2003.
http://www.repairfile.com/Why use HTTP Compression?
A quick tutorial on how and why to use HTTP compression when delivering your web pages.
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/asafras/http_compression.htmTAR.GZ File Compression for Windows
Tar and tar.gz files are very familiar to *NIX users, but not to everyone using Windows. To help those folks out, ezGZ has been created, which manipulates these archives in a nice GUI-friendly way. Source included.
http://www.psychology.nottingham.ac.uk/staff/cr1/gz.htmlZip Support in the .Net Framework
This MSDN article describes how to use the java.utl.zip package with a C# program. Includes a sample GUI Zip application.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdnmag/issues/03/06/ZipCompression/default.aspxavidemux
This is a free Linux program that allows you to edit your compressed video files. It is still in beta, and the docs and online help are very minimal at the time I’m writing this.
Version 0.90 is shipping as of May, 2003.
http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/OpenQuickTime
An effort to develop a nice QuickTime client for the Linux world, along with the possibility of an encoder and more.
Beta release 0.5 of the client is shipping as of May, 2003.
http://www.openquicktime.org/Corona
Corona is an image input/output library that can read, write, and manipulate image files in just a few lines of code. It can write PNG files, and read PNG, JPEG, PCX, BMP, TGA, and GIF. Corona was designed to be easy to use, and exports a straightforward C++ API. With just a few lines of […]
http://corona.sourceforge.net/Trout’s GIF Optimizer
This freeware program is designed to help you reduce the size of your GIF files. There are certain optimizations that can be performed with absolutely no loss of quality, as well as some that can provide additional improvements with some loss of resolution. Best of all, Trout’s GIF Optimizer is completely free.
An anonymous reader complained […]
http://chemware.co.nz/tgo.htmThe On2 VP6 Video Codec
The folks at On2 have a pretty nice sounding video codec here, designed for computer applications and set-top boxes. Looks like they want to go head-to-head with Windows Media 9 and MPEG-4.
http://www.on2.com/vp6.php3The Zziplib library
An open source library that does one thing only: extract files in a Zip archive, as long as they are stored or deflated.
Release 10.82 was shipped in July, 2003.
http://zziplib.sourceforge.net/Digital Audio Access Protocol,
Apple’s iTunes 4.0 player is able to play music across a local
network or the Internet, using a proprietary protocol. This protocol
not only tells machines how to stream audio content, it provides
access to playlists and track information as well.
The folks at the Digital Audio Access Protocol project are determined
to reverse engineer that protocol so they can […]
Dynamically resize uploaded images and save in PNG format
This Code Project article is pretty much summed up by its descriptive title. It appears to use the .NET framework to store images in PNG format.
http://codeproject.com/useritems/PNGUploader.aspread more from " Dynamically resize uploaded images and save in PNG format "
dcm4che - DICOM in Java
This open source project is an implementatoin of DICOM in Java. DICOM refers to the Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine standard, which provides standards for moving pictures around in medical applications.
http://dcm4che.sourceforge.net/PDF Creator Pilot
This library is able to product PDF documents from VB, Delphi, and Visual C++. This naturally includes the ability to create compressed images using jpeg, zlib, and CCITT formats.
http://www.colorpilot.com/pdflibrary.htmlDVR - Digital Video Recorder
An Open Source Linux project to create a personal Digital Video Recorder. Records and compresses in real time, supports a variety of video capture devices.
http://dvr.sourceforge.net/html/main.htmlOGMtools
A set of tools to manipulate OGG Media Streams. The command line tools provide information about the stream, and allow you to extract from or create/merge streams.
Version 1.0.2 is shipping as of May, 2003.
http://www.bunkus.org/videotools/ogmtools/Data Compression Researchers
The page from the Google directory.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Algorithms/Compression/Researchers/recorder.xhead
This app allows you to both record and play sounds on your Mac in various formats, including MP3 and MP4. Also includes a bulk conversion utility for changing formats, and has the ability to export to iTunes.
http://www.xheadsoftware.com/recorder_xhead.asp