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H.263 : Video coding for low bit rate communication
ITU-T recommendation H.263. Approved in January 2005.
H.264 : Advanced video coding for generic audiovisual services
ITU-T recommendation H.264. Approved in March 2005.
The H.264/AVC Advanced Video Coding Standard: Overview and Introduction to the Fidelity Range Extensions
by Gary J. Sullivan, Pankaj Topiwala, and Ajay Luthra. Overview of H.264/AVC standart.
http://www.cdt.luth.se/~peppar/kurs/smd151/spie04-h264OverviewPaper.pdf
x264 - a free h264/avc encoder
x264 is a free library for encoding H264/AVC video streams. It is released under the terms of the GPL license.
WinMPG Video Convert
This is another Swiss-Army Knife converter, letting you move back and forth between AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX, and SVCD formats.
Version 6.7 is shipping as of June, 2007.
VLC - the cross-platform media player
VLC is an Open Source multimedia player that supports your usual mix of audio and video formats. Support is currently included for MPEG-1, -2, -4, h.264, mp3, ogg and more. The site includes precompiled binaries for a really nice range of platforms, including Windows, Mac OS X, varios Linux flavors, and even BeOS!
Version 0.8.6 of […]
FFmpeg Streaming Multimedia System
The FFmpeg project consists of two main parts: FFmpeg, which encodes and decodes the multimedia streams, and FFserver, which provides streams via HTTP for various multimedia clients. FFMpeg is completely portable since it does not rely on proprietary DLLs. The library libavcodec, which contains all the ffmpeg codecs, can be reused in any program licensed […]
Libmpeg3
A library the provides the functions you need for editing MPEG streams. MPEG streams were really not created with editing in mind, so a library like this needs to take into account a lot of quirky things.
Version 1.7 is shipping as of June, 2007.
Quasar DV Codec: libdv
The Quasar DV codec (libdv) is a software codec for DV video, the encoding format used by most digital camcorders, typically those that support the IEEE 1394 (a.k.a. FireWire or i.Link) interface. Libdv was developed according to the official standards for DV video: IEC 61834 and SMPTE 314M.
Version 1.0 shipped in March, 2005.
Gspot Codec Information Appliance
GSpot identifies presence or absence of “B-VOP”, “Qpel”, and “GMC”, thus allowing the user to determine if a DivX5 file is compatible with KISS and other popular hardware DivX players. Provides information about MPEG1 or MPEG2 video and/or MPEG1 or MPEG2 audio either as “elementary” streams or multiplexed into an MPEG1 “system stream” or an […]
Xine
Xine is a free gpl-licensed video player for unix-like systems. It plays mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 system (audio + video multiplexed) streams,
mpeg elementary streams (audio/video only, e.g. mp3 files) and
AVI files (using win32 codec dlls). Xine plays the video and audio data of the stream and synchronizes the playback of both. Depending on the properties of […]
MainConcept H.264 SDK
This SDK decodes and encodes H.264 AVC (Advanced Video Coding) frames, making it easy to add support for this exciting new format to your applications. The MainConcept H.264 Codec will offer ultra-high quality encoding to and decoding from H.264 material at exceptional speeds in all profiles and levels supported by the standard.
http://mainconcept.com/site/developer-products-6/h264avc-sdk-733/information-4786.html
FFDShow Codec
FFDShow is DirectShow and VFW codec for decoding/encoding many video and audio formats, including DivX and XviD movies using libavcodec, xvid and other opensourced libraries with a rich set of postprocessing filters.
DivX
This is the current home for the DivX encoder and decoder. DivX ships in three different versions which offer varying levels of features for varying prices (including free.) Shipping DivX Video 6.6 as of May, 2007.
MPEG4IP
The MPEG4IP project provides an MPEG and IETF standards-based system for encoding, streaming, and playing MPEG-4 encoded audio and video.
Version 1.5 is shipping as of November, 2006.
XviD.org - Home of the XviD Codec
This project is developing an open source MPEG-4 codec. The code is currently ported to Solaris, Win32, and Linux.
Version 1.1.3 is shipping in June, 2007.
Arithmetic Coding revealed - A guided tour from theory to praxis
An updated and translated version of our German paper “Proseminar Datenkompression - Arithmetische Kodierung” from 2001. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first comprehensive paper that describes the whole way from the basic principles of AC up to a simple implementation, fully documented with C++ source code.
JPEG-LS Public Domain Code
A free implementation of the upcoming JPEG-LS compression standard.
diffball
A general delta compression/differencing suite for any platform that supports autoconf/automake, written in C, w/ builtin support for reading,writing, and converting between multiple file formats.
MJPEG Tools
MJPEG tools is a suite of programs which support video capture, editting, playback, and compression to MPEG of MJPEG video. Edit, play and compression software is hardware independent. Capture supports MJPEG hardware (Buz, Miro DC10+ etc).
An upgrade of mjpegtools to version 1.9.0 was issued in February of 2007.
