A C# front end for converting WAV files to MP3 format, using the LAME encoder in DLL format.

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/MP3Compressor.asp

Mike Donovan’s C# class to convert an image to an MPEG-1 I frame.

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/media/MPEGFunction.asp

With Archive & Restore, you can save, stow away and restore files easily. Stowing away files will recover space on your hard disk, increase clarity and reduce administration efforts. Saving versions of your files lets you return to a previous state, for example, while developing a project.

http://www.archiveandrestore.com/

This seems to be the official home page for RAR and WinRAR. RAR is a high performace archiver that is loved by many.

WinRAR 3.30 is out as of January, 2004.

http://www.rarlab.com/

Developed in the scope of MIGRATOR 2000 project (www.migrator2000.org), this site presents a graphical user interface to the three currently available codecs (VM, JJ2000, Jasper) as well as validation and parsing services to J2k codestreams and JP2 files.
It’s currently a widely used tool within WG1 (JPEG) to perform compliance tests on coders and codestreams. Site requires free registration for purposes of tracking stored images.

http://public.migrator2000.org/demos.xalter

Microsoft thinks Windows Media Video can be a big part of the HD scene. This web page is dedicated to that proposition.

http://www.wmvhd.com/

Compression is concerned with detecting patterns in order to reduce redundancy. Complearn is an attempt to take that pattern-recognition ability and use it for different ends.

http://complearn.sourceforge.net/

GPL MPEG-1/2 Decoder is a free DirectShow MPEG decoder filter. It can be used to play MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 streams in any media player based on DirectShow. In addition, it can be used as DVD decoder for unencrypted discs.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gplmpgdec/

A free program to deal with image formats in popular medical formats, including DICOM, SPM, PNG, and GIF.

Version 0.9.1 of (X)MedCon shipped in January, 2004.

http://xmedcon.sourceforge.net/

A Java library that can read a few different image file types. Currently that includes BMP, some TIFF, PNG, JPEG, and more, along with metadata from a few different file types,

Version 1.30 is shipping as of January, 2004

http://reader.imagero.com/

A paper that details the lossless compression system used in DVD-Audio.

http://www.meridian-audio.com/w_paper/2_1.PDF

The IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 consists of a set of JavaTM classes and APIs with five sample applications: three cross-platform playback applications and two tools for generating MPEG-4 content for use with MPEG-4-compliant devices. These applications are as follows:

• AVgen: a simple, easy-to-use GUI tool for creating audio/video-only content for ISMA- or 3GPP-compliant devices
• XMTBatch: a tool for creating rich MPEG-4 content beyond simple audio and video
• M4Play: an MPEG-4 client playback application
• M4Applet for ISMA: a Java player applet for ISMA-compliant content
• M4Applet for HTTP: a Java applet for MPEG-4 content played back over HTTP.

http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/tk4mpeg4?open&S_PKG=&S_TACT=103AMW61&S_CMP=GR&ca=dgr-ln
xwd01tk4mpeg4

A visual tool that lets you degrade image files with visual feedback on how you are doing. A good, easy way to minimize the size of files before using them on your web page, tec.

http://optimizer.sourceforge.net/

Foobar2000 is a relatively new audio player for Windows PCs. It seems to be attracting a little bit of interest among the literati, perhaps because it is mostly open sourced. It has a nice list of features, including tremendous list of codec support, as well
as some unusual ones, such as the ability to play files in Zip archives.

http://www.foobar2000.com/

This commercial product will zip up entire web sites and download them to your PC. You can then view them off line, at your leisure.

http://www.spidersoft.com/webzip/

JCALG1 is a small, open-source, LZSS derived compression library.

• Features Coded in 100% 32bit x86 assembly language for maximum performance and minimum size.
• Good compression ratio, typically much better than ZIP’s deflate.
• Extremely small and fast decompressor.
• Adjustable window size to allow for faster compression at the cost of compression ratio.
• Decompression requires no memory, other than the destination buffer.
• Easy integration with any application.
• Free!

http://www.collakesoftware.com/jcalg1.htm

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a free MP3 player written in a portable language like Java? These guys certainly think so.

Version 0.4 was shipping in January, 2004.

DCL user comment: Cool.

http://www.javazoom.net/javalayer/documents.html

A student group in Paris has set themselves the goal of creating a DVD/MPEG player that will work for everyone, everywhere. Linux, Mac, and Win32 ports are available right now. October 2001 sees the release of their player and server software.
VideoLAN is a software project, which produces free software for video, released under the GNU General Public License.

http://www.videolan.org/

A project that aims to hide information in MP3 files.

http://www.petitcolas.net/fabien/steganography/mp3stego/

ZipDB is a program that allows databases to be made easily and efficiently using compressed zip files. An easy-to-use gui is the key feature allowing quick access to all files in the archive.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/zipdb/

This article shows how to play a Media File in a C# Windows Application.

http://www.codeproject.com/cs/media/directshowmediaplayer.asp

Stuffit is the archiver of choice for those on the Apple platforms. Stuffit has been running on MacOS and OS/X for years, and over time added support for Windows, Linux, and Solaris. Stuffit comes in standard and deluxe versions, with a trial download available for the standard edition.

Version 8.0.2 shipped in December, 2003

http://www.stuffit.com/stuffit/win/index.html

A very comprehensive page of links from Yuval Fisher, who is right there in the middle of the whole fractal business. This page features a glut of links to papers, bibliographies, books, conferences, and software. You can’t go wrong here.

http://inls.ucsd.edu/~fisher/Fractals/

GAO Research sells modem software for quite a few different platforms, including a big batch of DSP parts. Naturally, this includes modules to perform both V.42bis and V.44 data compression.

http://www.gaoresearch.com/products/modemsoftware/modemsoftware.php

GAO Research sells speech codecs for quite a few different platforms, including a big batch of DSP parts. They support a wide varity of ITU formats, including G.729, G.711, G.722, and more.

http://www.gaoresearch.com/products/speechsoftware/speechsoftware.php

The Microsoft® Windows Media® Player 9 Series Software Development Kit (SDK) provides information and tools to customize Windows Media Player and to use the Windows Media Player ActiveX® control. This documentation also provides information about using Windows Media metafiles.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e43cbe59-678a-458a-86a7-ff1716fad
02f&DisplayLang=en

This page has the official releases of ARJ, UNARJ, JAR, and so on. This includes the free source to UNARJ and the ARJ32 command line archiver.

ARJ32 version 3.11 was shipping as of 12/2003.

ARJ version 2.82 was shipping as of 12/2003.

http://www.arjsoftware.com/files.htm

The LuraDocument.jpm PdfCompressor is a Windows application that can be used to automatically (Server version) or manually convert scanned documents to higly compressed PDF files. The supported input formats are TIFF, JPEG, BMP and PNM.

http://www.algovision-luratech.com/products/luradocument_jpm/pdf/

A command line program for making backups of directory trees and files. This freeware is ported to Linux, Windows, and Solaris.

Version 2.0.2 shipped in December, 2003.

http://dar.linux.free.fr/

This project aims to define a standard for the lossless compression of MIDI patch files. From the title, you might guess that the lossless audio compression is performed using FLAC - other binary data is compressed w/zlib.

http://swami.sourceforge.net/flacpak.php