AVI to MPEG Converter

Posted in July 31st, 2003

Published in MPEG-2 Video / H.261, Commercial Programs

This Win32 program will convert your AVI files to various MPEG file types. There is a free version which limits conversions to MPEG-1. The commercial version supports MPEG-2 and various extensions.

http://www.jhepple.com/avi_to_mpeg_converter.htm

ZipZag

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Posted in July 30th, 2003

Published in Commercial Programs, Archiving

Yet another Win32 archiver. Distinguishing features are: support for over 125 archive types, benchmarks that show it beating 7-Zip, WinRar, and WinAce for compression ratios.

http://www.zipzag.com/index.html

libmspack - A library for Microsoft compression formats

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Posted in July 29th, 2003

Published in Non-Commercial Libraries, Lossless Compression

A project whose goal is to implement libraries to support the various and sundry compression formats that Microsoft has cooked up over the years. Early in the process, much work left to be done.

http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/libmspack/

AckerPack - Smarter Folder Compressor

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Posted in July 29th, 2003

Published in Commercial Programs, Archiving

This commercial Win32 program is designed to take a folder and turn it into self-extracting archives in a proprietary format. Commercial, no free trial, money back guarantee.

http://avatarsoft.com/free/simpleserver.exe?product&pg=AckerPack_About

libExif

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Posted in July 28th, 2003

Published in Non-Commercial Libraries, JPEG

A library that allows you to parse and read the meta-tag content in EXIF files. C code, but no comments regarding compilers or platforms.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/libexif

Rarewares

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Posted in July 28th, 2003

Published in Links, Audio

A nice collection of pointers and links to audio/music compression software.

http://rarewares.hydrogenaudio.org/

VK Tools

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Posted in July 28th, 2003

Published in Non-Commercial Programs, Video

This is a set of tools that are used to analyze MPEG streams, and are intended to help developers check out the compliance of their work. There are three different tools that help you poke around in MPEG streams, see their contents, and dump their headers. Linux.
Version 0.7a is shipping in July, 2003.

http://ardmore.net/~thepaces/vk_tools/vk_tools_index.html

PhpZip

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Posted in July 25th, 2003

Published in Non-Commercial Programs, Archiving

A Php application to manage compressed archives. Handles Zip, tar, and proprietary archives.

http://phpzip.sourceforge.net/

BMP2PNG and PNG2BMP

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Posted in July 23rd, 2003

Published in Non-Commercial Programs, PNG

Convert back and forth between PNG and BMP. Freeware.

http://pmt.sourceforge.net/bmp2png/index.html

OTR Audio PDA Player Project

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Posted in July 23rd, 2003

Published in Non-Commercial Programs, Speech

OTR stands for “Old Time Radio”. The owners of this project want to be able to listen to classic mono AM radio recordings on their Sharp PDAs.

http://otrplayer.sourceforge.net/

Pngmeta

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Posted in July 23rd, 2003

Published in Non-Commercial Programs, PNG

Pngmeta is a tool for extracting metadata from PNG files. This is freeware.

http://pmt.sourceforge.net/pngmeta/index.html

Helix DNA Producer SDK Project Home Page

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Posted in July 21st, 2003

Published in Non-Commercial Libraries, Video, Audio

The Helix DNA Producer is a project that Real Networks has dropped into the open source space. Producer is a platform for creating streaming content and downloadable media files.

https://helix-producer.helixcommunity.org/

Win32 Wrapper classes for Gilles Volant’s Zip/Unzip API

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Posted in July 21st, 2003

Published in Non-Commercial Libraries, Source Code, Zip

This article is an addition to an earlier CodeProject posting that was designed to make your life easier when working with Zip files. The previous article had support for extraction and navigation of Zip files. This article adds support for creation of Zip files.

http://codeproject.com/cpp/ZipUnzip.asp

GRZip

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Posted in July 19th, 2003

Published in Non-Commercial Programs, Burrows-Wheeler Transform/Block Sorting

GRZip - is a high-performance file compressor based on Burrows-Wheeler Transform and Advanced Weighted Frequency Counting. It uses The Block-Sorting Lossless Data Compression Algorithm, which has received considerable attention over recent years for both its simplicity and effectiveness. This implementation has compression rate of 2.364 bps on the Calgary Corpus. The site has Windows, Linux, […]

http://magics.h10.ru/main.php?page=GRZip&folder=projects

Text Preprocessing for Data Compression

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Posted in July 19th, 2003

Published in Papers/Documentation, Burrows-Wheeler Transform/Block Sorting, Lossless Compression, PPM

by Jürgen Abel and William Teahan. This paper looks at a few different techniques for preprocessing data before performing text compression, and compares the gains achieved when combining the preprocessors with PPM, BWT, and LZ algorithms.

http://www.data-compression.info/JuergenAbel/Preprints/Preprint_Text_Preprocessing.pdf

Hash Zip

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Posted in July 19th, 2003

Published in Non-Commercial Programs, Incredible Claims

Hash Zip attempts to store 256 byte blocks by hashing them down to 30 byte blocks. Decompression seems problematic.

http://freedaemonconsulting.com/tech/hzip.php

UHBC 1.0

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Posted in July 19th, 2003

Published in Non-Commercial Programs, Burrows-Wheeler Transform/Block Sorting

UHBC is a blocksorting compressor optimized for high compression ratios. The program uses recent research results by S. Deorowicz and J. Abel for improved second stage processing after the BWT. Some extensions and sophisticated modeling provide top compression ratios, giving the best known result for Calgary Corpus (2.208 bps average). UHBC is free for non-commercial […]

ftp://ftp.elf.stuba.sk/pub/pc/pack/uhbc10.zip

The MPEG Industry Forum

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Posted in July 17th, 2003

Published in MPEG-2 Video / H.261, MPEG-4 Visual / H.263

Stated objective: To further the adoption of the MPEG-4 Standard, by establishing MPEG-4 as an accepted and widely used standard among application developers, service providers, content creators and end users..
Update: This group has now changed it’s name to The MPEG Industry Forum, and have expanded their charter to include all emerging MPEG standards. For right […]

http://www.m4if.org/

Blaze MediaConvert

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Posted in July 15th, 2003

Published in Commercial Programs, Video, Image Compression, Audio

This product performs a huge number of conversions among different media types. Want to convert your huge collection of MP3 files to WMA? No problem. MPEG-2 to AVI? No problem. MediaConvert even handles some unusal conversions, such as video to animated GIF. And naturally, a huge number of conversions between various image formats, including GIF, […]

http://mediaconvert.mystikmedia.com/

Introduction to MMX Programming

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Posted in July 15th, 2003

Published in Source Code, Data Compression, Tutorials, Reference, Presentations

An article that gets into the details you need to know about in order to use the MMX instruction set found on Intel processors. The author uses image processing as a demo app.

http://codeproject.com/cpp/mmxintro.asp

Winamp OpenSource LCD Plugin for various LCD & VFD modules

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Posted in July 15th, 2003

Published in Non-Commercial Libraries, MP3/MPEG Audio

With this plugin your copy of Winamp will display track information on an LCD display attached to your PC. Just the thing if you’re looking to set up a jukebox of some kind, maybe in your car. Windows, free.

http://www.markuszehnder.ch/projects/lcdplugin/

Plain Simple Zip

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Posted in July 9th, 2003

Published in Commercial Programs, Zip

Just what the name says, a very simple Zip program for Win32. Registration is $10.

http://www.atomicrobot.com/shareware.htm

Hawk Software Commercial Speech Codecs

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Posted in July 8th, 2003

Published in Commercial Libraries, Speech

Hawk Software is now selling a pair of codecs, LPC-10 and OpenLPC, that are suitable for Windows CE, CELinux, and other 32-bit embedded platforms. More are planned for future releases.

http://www.hawksoft.com/hawkvoice/commcodecs.shtml