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PackWord can compress a Microsoft Word document (.doc) file into a smaller, compressed, .doc file. The compressed .doc file is self-extracting: when loaded into Microsoft Word, the compressed document will automatically expand to the original version.
http://www.packword.com/Luratech
Luratech has plugins and an SDK for both their proprietary format and JPEG2000. Products come in a dizzying array of options, ActiveX controls, C-SDK, Java-SDK, plugins for PhotoShop or browsers. Note that some of their products can now be downloaded as freeward!
Note: What was once LuraTech is now Algo Vision LuraTech.
Reader Tom H. says: Luratech […]
http://www.algovisionluratech.com/MP3 Upgrade in the Works?
ZDNet reports that MP3 patent holders, Fraunofer Institute and Thomson Multimedia are shopping around a new version of the aging audio standard. Formats such as Microsoft’s Windows Media format have been eating into the MP3 dominance on the net.
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5083015,00.html?chkpt=zdhpnews01Stream Machines Selling MPEG-2 Chip
Stream Machines is selling a dedicate chip that will decode MPEG-1, -2, and -3, along with MP3 and other standards. The chip will be roughly $35 in quantity.
http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20010515S0052Image Power Downloads
Image Power has their products available for download here, which includes the commercial version of PowerCompressor, and a beta copy of Jasper, a JPEG2000 codec.
http://www.imagepower.com/products/default.asp?url=downloads/default.aspJPEG200 In Accelerator Chip
Analog Devices has announced an acceleratory chip that supports the JPEG2000 image compression format. The chip is targeted towards digital still cameras, and is available now for $14 in quantitites.
http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20010511S0029Xtractor Plus
Home of Xtractor Plus, handy multiple archive extraction utility for Zip, Rar, Ace, and Arj type archives.
http://www.harmonyhollow.net/xplus.shtmlOpenLPC Codec
A low bitrate codec, described as being derived from the work of Ron Frederick. Freeware.
ftp://ftp.futuredynamics.com/OpenLPC/HawkVoice Speech Samples
Some speech samples that have been encoded at various rates using various codecs. If you’ve never heard speech encoded at 1.4 Kbps, here’s a chance to check it out.
http://www.hawksoft.com/hawkvoice/codecs.shtmlhttp://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2190.html
RFC 2190 describes the Internet standard for encapsulating H.263 in an RTP packet stream.
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2190.htmlDavid A. Scott’s Fully Bijective Arithmetic Coder
The term bijective as used by Scott means that for any given given file X you are guarantted that A( B( X ) ) == B( A( X ) ) == X, where A and B are a pair of bijectively matched programs. In this particular case, A and B are a compressor and decompressor […]
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