Links to a variety of lossless coders, includes source for Huffman, arithmetic, LZSS, and other compressors.

http://www.larkin.lanit.ru/compress/compr.htm

AVInfo is a utility for displaying AVI and MPEG (1, 2) information. It returns the length of a clip, FPS, resolution, codec, audio and video bit rate, number of key frames, sound parameters, and the number and type of streams, including detailed information for each, generating a filelist with statistics.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/avinfo/

The software reviewer at the SlaughterHouse speculated that commercial developers of zip programs ought to just pack it in when they see how good QuickZip is. If you agree or disagree, why not post an evaluation here so we can benefit from your experience? It seems to be free, plus has support for Chinese and several European languages.

Release 3.05 is shipping as of November, 2003.

http://www.quickzip.org/

This is a Russian language web site, so I’ll have to apologize in advance for any mistakes. As far as I can tell, this is a PPM-based archiver. I can’t tell if it’s free or not, so I’m listing it as both!

http://shipinbottle.narod.ru/

Alexander Simakov has created a streaming, DCT-based, lossy compression library that works on gray scale images. This is a shareware library that works with Win32 programs. Registered users get source code, samples in several languages, and help files in English and Russian.

http://www.entropyware.info/

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/

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/

A DirectShow filter which will allow you to play AVI files containing AC3 encoded audio. A nice stream of releases with steady improvement.

Version 0.66b is shipping as of March, 2003.

http://ac3filter.sourceforge.net/

This site is in Russian, so I am not able to tell you much about it. It has links to some papers, and seems to have a link to PDF files that comprise much of a book on compression.

Reader Dan L. says The best site about comression!

http://compression.graphicon.ru/

The book that accompanies the course of the same name. Russian-language submitter reports that the book has info on RLE, LZW, CCITT Group 3, Jpeg, Wavelet, and Fractal compression.

http://graphics.cs.msu.su/library/our_publications/fractal/index.htm

Andrey Fomin has posted a long Russian paper in word format on his web site. You’ll need a Microsoft Passport (free) to get here, but it’s worth the trip if you can read it.
Andrey has this to say about his paper/book:
A survey of different basic Data Compression techniques. Uses some mathematical and statistical materials, but doesn’t require a
special scientific degree. Though written in Russian, this book contains VERY useful References, Examples and Source Codes!

http://www.msnusers.com/FAndy/files/dc.HTM

Compression links to papers and web sites, mostly in Russian language.

http://sochi.net.ru/~maxime/compression.shtml