Billed as a front end for the Lame encoder, LameFE actually supports much more than that on the Win32 platform. Rip CDs, encode using Lame, Monkey’s Audio, or Ogg Vorbis, or playback using a similar batch of codecs.

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A media player that comes in a free and pay version. Although it’s labeled as a media player, it looks to me as though this is primarily inteded to be used as a DVD player.

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It’s a little hard for me to tell what Epigon is selling. They have a nice picture of some kind of board on their front page, but I don’t think they have any hardware for sale. They do appear to have audio codecs for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4, as well as what appears to be […]

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Ken Silverman’s Zip utility. Ken says:

My own version of PKZIP. It’s quite a bit slower, and it’s a bit of a memory hog… but for good reason. KZIP creates smaller .ZIP files than PKZIP with maximum compression enabled! No, I didn’t cheat. You see… during compression, PKZIP gives up after it has found so many […]

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Another Ken Silverman utility. Ken has this to say about ZipMix:

Sometimes, when you run 2 different .ZIP programs on the same data (PKZIP & KZIP for example), some files get compressed better in one program, while other files get compressed better in the other. ZIPMIX will take the best files from each one and create […]

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OpenShiiva does just one thing: converts VOB files to MPEG-4 format. It does this on MacOS X. VOB files are wrapped MPEG-2 format streams, such as you might find on DVDs. You can expect a nice decrease in size when going from VOB to MPEG-4, so this is ideal for archiving DVD files to […]

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Another compressor for HTML or Javascript files. This looks to be a Javascript implementation. Looks free.

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