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Oak Technology JPEG Image Processor
The PM-36 is a chip that is touted as processing up to 110 MB of data per second. Oak says it is suitable for copiers, printers, scanners, etc.
http://www.oaktech.com/products/imaging/processors/icodec/pm36.htmlBatch Zip Toolkit
Despite the name, this is simply an archiving program that supports the usual gamut of compression formats, including Zip, RAR, ACE, etc.
Version 3.00 seems to be shipping in December, 2002.
http://www.dtrleisure.com/bztk/index.htmlTeddy Turner Mixed Up In Compression Lawsuit
Teddy Turner, son of CNN mogul Ted Turner, was apparently named in a lawsuit in 1999 over an alleged misrepresentation of compression claims. A Florida company named Vision Tek claimed it could pump video over normal phone lines at high speeds, but was not able to satisy its investors, leading to a court case.
http://jacksonville.bcentral.com/jacksonville/stories/1999/03/15/story1.htmlread more from " Teddy Turner Mixed Up In Compression Lawsuit "
Xipped
Advertised as The world’s most versatile and powerful archive utility! Available as shareware or free w/ads. Supports various formats, does conversions, works with the Windows shell.
http://www.xipped.com/JPEG Library
Intel has a C/C++ JPEG library that works with Visual C++ under Win32. It would appear that their motivation is to distribute code that is optimized for the MMX extensions in their processor. License agreement has a few points that should be examined, but essentially it appears to be free. Please correct me if I’m […]
http://developer.intel.com/software/products/perflib/ijl/index.htmMaxcode Archive Download Page
Maxcode has a selection of C/C++ code here related to archiving and compression.
http://www.maxcode.com/nuke/download.php?op=viewsdownload&sid=32Add GIF-animation to your MFC and ATL projects
Decoding GIF files and displaying them without help isn’t particularly easy. Add animation to the task and you’re looking at a ton of work. Fortunately, this MFC-compatible set of classes on the CodeProject web site does the heavy lifting for you.
http://www.codeproject.com/bitmap/pictureex.aspread more from " Add GIF-animation to your MFC and ATL projects "
CPicture - The Yovav (Horror) PictureShow
Straightforward code compatible with Visual C++ and MFC for decoding and displaying JPEG, GIF, BMP, and a few other types of files.
http://www.codeproject.com/bitmap/pictureshow.aspread more from " CPicture - The Yovav (Horror) PictureShow "
JPEG Compression Algorithm and Associated Data Structures
A paper by Mark D. Schroeder at the University of North Dakota. This paper talks a bit about implementation issues for JPEG.
http://www.cs.und.edu/~mschroed/jpeg.htmlread more from " JPEG Compression Algorithm and Associated Data Structures "
Location Based Encoding - LBE
Chitaranjan P.S., Arun Shankar, and Niyant .K posted a description of a new coding scheme called LBE on the web. It’s interesting, but I’m not sure that it appears to have any serious advantages over current state of the art.
http://in.geocities.com/iamthebiggestone/how_lbe_works.htmARJ for Linux and FreeBSD
Andrew Belov, from ARJ Software Russia, has announced the release of ARJ for Linux and FreeBSD. Links on this site to the OS/2 version as well, if you’re in the market for that.
http://testcase.newmail.ruCompressed Virtual Memory
Rodrigo Castro has an interesting project going at the University of Sao Paulo in Brasil. Rodrigo is integrating compression with the virtual memory system of Linux. By storing compressed pages in RAM, he hopes to improve overall system performance. The goal is to read and write fewer pages to disk. See the full details on
his […]
