Another archiver that supports ACE, ARJ, RAR, ZIP and perhaps more.

Version 3.0 is shipping in March, 2004.

http://www.zipey.com/

This program creates a very high secure AES /Serpent/Twofish 256 bit/Blowfish 448 Bit, Mars 1248 Bit and RC6 2048 Bit selfextracting file. The SFX-Header is 41kb-49kb great. This SFX cipher checks whether the decrypting password is correct with a highly secure method, never compromising the key: while a 64 byte random number is created and also encrypted. While decrypting these two numbers are compared to test for the correctness of the password. Very simple, yet as safe as the algorithm itself. The license covers Multicrypt too. One license for two programs.

http://www.paehl.de/english.php?sfxcreator

2PNG is a graphics converter allowing you to convert images to png format from 50+ image file types including conversions from jpeg to png, from gif to png, from tiff to png and so on. (See the full list of supported formats here.) The program has no windows interface and is fully optimized for working in background mode

http://batch.fcodersoft.com/2png/index.htm

QuickTime Alternative will allow you to play QuickTime (.mov .qt) files. This way there is no need to install the offical QuickTime Player. It also supports QuickTime content that is embedded in webpages. The QuickTime plugins include iPIX and QuickTimeVR.

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/mirror.htm?quicktime

Real Alternative will allow you to play RealMedia files without having to install the official RealPlayer. You do need a media player that is capable of playing RealMedia files. The included Media Player Classic supports it. Supported are RealAudio (.ra .rpm), RealVideo (.rm .ram .rmvb), RealText (.rt), and ReadPix (.rp). Not fully supported are: Streaming smil files (.smi .smil) and Realmedia embedded in webpages.

http://home.hccnet.nl/h.edskes/finalbuilds.htm

A commercial MPEG video compression library written completely in Pascal (Borland Delphi, source code included). A demo version and the documentation can be downloaded.

http://www.msbsoftware.it/mpegpas/

From the site: Epic24 is a GUI program that I wrote to interactively compare graphic compression codecs against each other. It currently contains JPG, Lossless JPG, JPEG 2000, (Jasper Library Implementation), PNG, John Robinson’s BTP and ATP, and finally my own lossless graphics compression called IMPLODE (IMage Predictive LOssless Decoder Encoder).

http://www.users.bigpond.com/kevinpeirce/Epic24/index.htm

APT (Adaptive Prediction Trees) image coding supersedes BTPC (Binary Tree Predictive Coding). It is a general-purpose compression scheme for all types of still image. It does both lossless and lossy compression of monochrome and color images from 1 to 16 bits per component. Its performance on all image types is often close to that of the best alternative.

http://www.intuac.com/userport/john/apt/index.html

WinHki is an archiving tool that understands the usual gamut of formats - compresses 9, decompresses 12, and one of this is its own proprietary HKI format.

http://www.winhki.com/en/index.htm

A nice CodeGuru article describing compression of a dictionary.

http://codeguru.com/Cpp/Cpp/algorithms/compression/article.php/c6403/

The OutlookZIP it’s an Add-On for Microsoft® Outlook. It makes easy for you to compress the files that you attach to Microsoft® Outlook e-mail messages. OutlookZIP adds three buttons to Outlook toolbar making the usage simple easy. OutlookZIP works only with Outlook 2000, Outlook XP (2002), and Outlook 2003. It does not work with Outlook Express.

http://pwp.netcabo.pt/e2e/

In this article, I examine an indexing method that lets you find any character sequence in the source text in time only proportional to the sequence length using a structure that can compress the entire source text and index into less space than the text alone. This technique is exceptionally fast at detecting and counting occurrences of any string in the source text.

http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=8944/ddj0312d/0312d.htm?temp=jiRiV3fTQc

This code shows how to use the freeware InfoZip Zip32.DLL and Unzip32.DLL files from the http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/ website. The InfoZip DLL’s are open-source DLL’s that are available for programmers to utilise free of charge. They are standard C DLLs and were very tricky/impossible to interface with VB until VB5/6 offered the ‘addressof’ operator.

http://codeguru.com/vb/gen/vb_graphics/fileformats/article.php/c6743/

cabextract is a GPLed program which extracts Microsoft Cabinet (.CAB) archives. It fully supports both the MSZIP and LZX compression formats. It can also extract multi-part archives and self-extracting archives.

Release 1.0 shipped in March, 2004

http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php3

Miracle video encoding technology verified by this Australian testing firm.

http://www.tollygroup.com/TS/2003/MediaWorldCom/AdamsPlatform/TollyTS203125MediaWorldOctob
er2003.pdf

This product seems to have chosen the obvious name, so that’s a good start. It appears to be an archiver for *NIX that can work with tgz, tar, bz2, zip, and jar archives. It’s Python, and it appears to be free.

Version 1.9.4 is shipping in March, 2004.

http://rox.sourceforge.net/archive.html

Tom Cagill creates GIF files without using LZW.

http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=1486/ddj0110o/

This open source project aims to create a free H.323 stack. The project was started as a reaction to the high cost of commercial implementations of audio and video compression code implementing the various components of H.323. Roger H. adds There are now several useful applications which use the library
including OpenMCU (a reliable multi person conference server)
and GnomeMeeting (a GTK/Gnome GUI client for Linux/BSD Unix.

Version 1.13.13 of OpenH323 shipped in Marh, 2004.

http://www.openh323.org/

by Maryline Charrier, Diego Santa Cruz and Mathias Larsson. This short paper gives an overview of the JPEG2000 standard, along with a java decoder.

http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/research/jpeg2000-icmcs99

A paper by Timothy McLaughlin that gives an overview of HTTP Compression and tries to decide whether it’s a good thing for not.

http://www3.lehigh.edu/images/userImages/cdh3/Page_3456/LU-CSE-02-002.pdf

by Diego Santa-Cruz and Touradj Ebrahimi. This paper is to-be-published.

http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/research/jpeg2k-study-eusipco2000

by Diego Santa-Cruz and Touradj Ebrahimi. A paper to be published in Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), September, 2000.

http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/research/jpeg2k-func-icip2000

A library for reading and writing gif images. The save functionality uses an uncompressed gif algorithm to avoid the Unisys LZW patent. This library is based on Eric Raymond’s giflib and implements a superset of that library’s API.

Version 4.1.2 of this library shipped in March, 2004.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/libungif/

ZipScan performs a fast file search that looks inside Zip, CAB, RAR, JAR, and ACE archive files, including self-extracting archives. The search can also check a file’s size, look for a text string, and search a file’s version resource table.

http://www.zipscan.co.uk/

Florin Ghido has packaged his lossless compressor into a nice SDK - take advantage of his great audio compression in products of your own.

http://losslessaudiocompression.com/SDK.php

DACT is a brute force compressor written by Roy Keene that tries out a whole library of compression routines on a given file, and then simply picks the best performer.

Release 0.8.36 was shipping in early March, 2004.

http://www.rkeene.org/oss/dact/

A paper by Diego Santa Cruz, Touradj Ebrahimi, Mathias Larsson, Joel Askelöf and Charilaos Cristopoulos. According to the abstract, this paper discusses ways to decode regions of an image on the fly without needing to do a complete decode of the entire image.

http://ltswww.epfl.ch/~dsanta/research/interactive-roi-mmsp99

Course notes of a JPEG 2000 short course given at the International
Conference in Image Processing (ICIP). By Dr. Majid Rabbani and Diego Santa-Cruz. The course covers image coding principles, a review of JPEG and all the main elements of JPEG 2000: wavelet transform, entropy coding, bitstream structure, error resilience, functionality, performance evaluation, etc.

http://dsanta.users.ch/teaching/index.html

The folks at Compandent have this to say about their product: Compandent’s ComPacketer is a voice coder which achieves a breakthrough in quality/bit rate/complexity tradeoff. Compandent’s novel technology, the ComPacketer that operates at 2.8 kb/s, produces speech with quality which exceeds that of ITU-T G.723.1 at 6.3 kb/s. Using the ComPacketer, only graceful degradation is introduced in frame erasure environment, as compared to the higher quality degradation introduces by the common standards used for VoIP.

http://www.compandent.com/products_compacketer.htm

Another Win32 archiver that can work with a zillion formats. Recent new features added to BitZipper include deflate64 support, ACE archive support, and better integration with the Windows shell.

BitZipper 4.0 shipped in February, 2004.

http://www.bitzipper.com/