Author Page
R. Nigel Horspool — On-Line Publications
The compression-related papers seem to concentrate on LZ and other lossless methods.
Real Time Ac3 Encoder
At the time of its addition to the database, this project appears to be in a very early alpha state. Looks as though volunteers are needed!
Advanced HTMLCoder
This product is designed to optimize, compress, and encrypt your HTML pages, which makes them load more quickly and protects them from casual copying.
GetCRC
This instructive program creates a wide variety of 16 and 32 bit CRCs, many of which are commonly used in archiving programs. View the README in the same directory of the ftp server.
jp2IE - JPEG2000 ActiveX Control for Internet Explorer
The jp2IE control is an extension of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and allows the display of JPEG/JPEG2000 compressed files. It is based on the IJG implementation of the JPEG Standard Part 1/2 (ISO/IEC 10918-1/2) and the JASPER implementation of the JPEG2000 Standards Part 1 (ISO/IEC 15444-1).
PuZip
A Zip compressor for the C64, and by extension, the C128, VIC20, C16, and Plus/4. If you have to ask what a C64 is, don’t bother!
DMSDOS - Linux kernel driver
DMSDOS is a loadable module for the Linux kernel. It provides read and write access to compressed FAT filesystems, such as Microsoft’s Doublespace/ Drivespace and Stac’s Stacker.
jpg2html
jpg2html converts JPEG images into HTML. A series of jpg2html procedures are being written to explore different means and different effects.
Windows Media 9 Series reviewed
This site collects information, links, and review on Windows Media 9. Includes some detailed information on the codecs that are part of the new package.
Unchecked Buffer in File Decompression Functions Could Lead to Code Execution (Q329048)
This Microsoft Security Bulletin details a bug in the code that implements compressed folders in the Windows 9X product line.
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS02-
054.asp
Windows GDI Bitmap Compression
A description of the format used to implement bitmap compression under Windows.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/gdi/bitmaps_6x0u.asp
MediaPipe
MediaPipe is a flexible framework to manipulate media on MacOS X. It allows you to build decoding, filtering, encoding and even streaming pipelines that correspond exactly to your needs. Additionally, if a format is not supported, or a transformation missing, it features an SDK that allows you to quickly implement the pipe you want.
Zip for Macintosh
A port of the InfoZip programs to the Macintosh.
Entropy on the World Wide Web
Chris Hillman’s page of links to Information Theory pages, papers, etc.
Entropy-Related Software
Links to software, organized into three categories: Tutorials, Freeware, and Payware. Organized by Chris Hillman.
An Entropy Primer
An introduction to Shannon’s notion of probabilistic entropy, from the viewpoint of ergodic theory and dynamical systems theory. Includes a complete proof a reasonably general (and useful!) version of the Asymptotic Equipartition Principle (AEP). Includes figures.
Entropy in Information and Coding Theory
Like all of Chris Hillman’s pages, a nice set of links.
High School Kids Win Prizes for Compression Algorithm
A couple of high school kids from Saratoga, CA, were regional winners in the Siemens Westinghouse Science and Technology competition.
http://www.svcn.com/archives/saratoganews/01.10.01/edu-0102.html
HTMLZip
HTMLZip is a utility to creating compressed HTML pages. True compression algorithm reduces files to 20%-70% of original. JavaScript is used for extracting in your browser (no third-party software).
Release 1.06 appears to have gone out in October, 2002.
UltimateZip
The folks at UltimateZip
bill their freeware program as The Archive Program for the New Millenium, and why not? It has a full set of archive types that it supports, built in disk-spanning, skins, the works. It looks pretty good.
Release 2.7.1 shipped in September, 2002.
LHZ Benchmark
A set of benchmark results that compare various versions of LHA and jLHA. (jLHA is an LHA library found on the same web site.)
http://homepage1.nifty.com/dangan/en/Content/Program/Java/jLHA/LhaBenchmark.html
LHA Library for Java
jLHA is a Java library that supports reading and writing of LHA archives. It attempts to use the same interface as the java.util.zip package. It looks like there was a burst of activity in the spring of 2002, not much activity since them.
http://homepage1.nifty.com/dangan/en/Content/Program/Java/jLHA/LhaLibrary.html
AutoImager
Full-featured batch image processing and conversion software. Over 70 image formats are supported, and the software provides an extensive array of image enhancement, editing, and processing operations. All processing and conversion operations have numerous options that can be optionally set for maximum control. The entire application is highly customizable. AutoImager also offers complete command-line […]
Chilkat Zip
Chilkat Zip is an easy-to-use, royalty-free ActiveX control that empowers your applications to create/manipulate Zip archives. It can encrypt your data with the latest 256-bit AES Encryption, includes self-extracting EXE capabilities, and provides easy access to decompressed contents of individual files stored within a Zip archive. You can easily compress directly from memory buffers […]
XCode Video Networking Processor
ViXS Systems from Toronto, Ontario has announced the
XCode chip, which they say will adjust MPEG formats, bit rates, and
resolutions on the fly as data moves through an IP network. At a
minimum, this means the part can format MPEG1 to MPEG2 to MPEG4, and change resolutions from QCIF to standard to high definition and back again, […]
Project: streamTranscoder
A rather terse description on SourceForge: Stream transcoder will be designed for use in relaying and converting streaming audio between various formats. MP3 and Vorbis will be supported. In Beta 4 as of September, 2002.
ZipArchive - A library for C++ programmers
This library adds zip compression and decompression functionality to your program, allowing you to create and modify ZIP files in a compatible way with WinZip, PKZIP and other popular archivers. Its easy and practical interface makes the library suitable for the beginners as well as for the advanced users. The library is published under the […]
Multimedia Paper Summaries
A set of links to paper summaries, including a batch on Coding, Compression, and Media Formats.
Advanced Fractals
A Web-based tutorial on Fractals, which includes a description of fractal image compression.
http://library.thinkquest.org/12740/msie4/advanced/index.html
On Fractal Compression
An overview of Fractal Compression.
