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Fractal Image Compression for Spaceborne Transputers

Posted in July 29th, 2004

A dissertation by Keith Howell which evaluates the suitability of Fractal Compression for spacecraft images. Keith says he is willing to supply source code upon request.

http://www.howell1964.freeserve.co.uk/MSc/FIC/FIC_00.htm

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Package: unrar (1:0.0.1-1)

Posted in July 29th, 2004

Unrar can extract files from .rar archives. Can’t handle archives in the RAR 3.0 format.

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/utils/unrar

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SynCE - Dynamite

Posted in July 29th, 2004

Dynamite is a tool and library for decompressing data compressed with PKWARE Data Compression Library and it was created from the specification provided by a post in the comp.compression newsgroup.

http://synce.sourceforge.net/synce/dynamite.php

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Stuns

Posted in July 28th, 2004

This program tries to unpack the given file by application of several algorithms byte-by-byte. Result of work of the program is the set of files with the unpacked data. Many of the produced files are not correct. However, among them there can be correctly unpacked data. Correctly unpacked files have […]

http://falinc.narod.ru/Stuns.zip

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Ch zlib Package

Posted in July 28th, 2004

Ch zlib Package is Ch interface to zlib. Ch is a C/C++ interpretive freely available from htpp://www.softintegration.com. Ch zlib Package alllows zlib applications with compression and decompression function runs in Ch across platform without compilation. Ch zlib Package includes the source code for building the binding to zlib.

http://chzlib.sourceforge.net/

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Read tags of .ogg files

Posted in July 27th, 2004

This is a simple class that reads default tags (the ones suggested by xiph.org) and the common “COMMENT” tag used by WinAmp and other players and tag editors.

http://codeproject.com/useritems/ogg_tag_reader.asp

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mp3stat

Posted in July 27th, 2004

Mp3stat is Linux a utility program to compare encoders against an MP3 that was VBR encoded. It outputs a linear graphical bitstream analysis of each MP3 being compared and gives you a breakdown of how many frames of each bitrate are found in the MP3. It basically allows you to see how encoders treat areas […]

https://signal-lost.homeip.net/projects/

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PicoZip

Posted in July 16th, 2004

PicoZip is an award winning file compression utility that runs on all 32-bit Windows platforms such as Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP. It is extremely easy to use, yet contains many advanced features that helps you create or unzip ZIP files, as well as most other popular archive formats like RAR, ACE, […]

http://www.picozip.com/

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Animal - AN IMAging Library

Posted in July 16th, 2004

Yet another imaging library that claims to support over 80 image formats under Win32. This is listed as an Alpha status project that is shipping version 0.14.0 as of July, 2004.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/animal

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DynaZIP ZIP/UNZIP toolkits

Posted in July 16th, 2004

DynaZIP offers just about everything you’d want to work with Zip files in a Win32 environment.
DataCompression.info user Mike L. had this to say: Creates huge output executables. Features contained in multiple packages are contained in a single package in comparable products. Pricing is very steep compared to comparable products.

http://www.innermedia.com/dz/index.htm

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PowerArchiver

Posted in July 16th, 2004

Yet another Windows archiving program. PowerArchiver comes with a nice long list of supported formats: ZIP, CAB, LHA (LZH), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, BH, RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZ, BZIP2, XXE, and UUE. Plus a built-in viewer for JPG, GIF, and a few other formats.

Release 9.0 of PowerArchiver shipped July, 2004.

http://www.powerarchiver.com/

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Symbian OggPlay

Posted in July 16th, 2004

OggPlay is an Ogg vorbis audio player for smartphones. I started working on this project in early April 2003. The 1st version for the SonyEriccson P800 was released end of April. Many people have contributed localized versions, new skins, documentation, and are helping with porting the application to other phones since then. OggPlay has become […]

http://symbianoggplay.sourceforge.net/

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About LZW Compression

Posted in July 16th, 2004

A tutorial by Martin Zolnieryk on LZW, along with some pseudo code and links.

http://www.starsdev.com/developer/lzw.php

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axPAQ

Posted in July 16th, 2004

A compressor built with the world-beating PAQAR 3.0 compressor. axPAQ wraps a GUI around the engine, and includes complete source.

http://www.alphaxsoftware.com/downloads/

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JMAC: Open Source Java Monkey’s Audio Decoder/JavaSound SPI

Posted in July 10th, 2004

JMAC is a Java implementation of the Monkey’s Audio decoder/JavaSound SPI. Currently, Monkey’s Audio format up to 3.97 version supported. JMAC is distributed under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License.

Version 1.65 of JMAC is shipping as of July, 2004.

http://jmac.sourceforge.net/

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Taking Advantage of libpng

Posted in July 10th, 2004

Reputedly an excellent set of resources for using libpng - but don’t take my word for it - my Japanese is non-existent.

http://www5.cds.ne.jp/~kato/png/

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FreeImage

Posted in July 10th, 2004

FreeImage is yet another free library for image reading, writing, and manipulation. FreeImage supports a long list of compressed formats, including JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and more. Claims to support multiple platforms, but it does apear that most of the experience with this project is on Win32 systems.

Version 3.4.0 is shipping in July, 2004.

http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/

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Experiments in archival-quality image compression

Posted in July 10th, 2004
Published in Results, JPEG

Some image compression tests by Mike Muus, the author of ping.

http://ftp.arl.army.mil/~mike/bermuda/

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WMA To MP3 Converte

Posted in July 10th, 2004

WMA To MP3 Converter was written for converting WMA to or from MP3/WAV files. So, with WMA to MP3 Converter, you may convert WMA to MP3, convert WMA to WAV, convert WAV to WMA, convert MP3 to WMA.

http://www.wma-to-mp3.net/

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JSPFileManager

Posted in July 10th, 2004

JSPFM supports the standard file operations of creation, editing, copying, moving, deleting, renaming and compression/decompression of files and directories. JSPFM also supports some special file operations specific to certain file types such as transposition and resizing of image type files.

http://jspfilemanager.sourceforge.net/

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wmeTV

Posted in July 10th, 2004

wmeTV is a Windows Media Encoder based TV viewing and video capturing application (PVR) suitable for most modern capture cards. Features include scheduling, capturing and viewing at high resolution and remote control support.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmetv/

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Practical Compressor Test

Posted in July 10th, 2004
Published in Results, Archiving

Unlike some other compressor comparison sites, I won’t be looking for a compressor offering for the last bit of compression. Instead I’ll try to find the most practical compressor out there.

http://www.elis.ugent.be/~wheirman/compression/

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JIU - The Java Imaging Utilities - An image processing library

Posted in July 10th, 2004

JIU, the Java Imaging Utilities, is a library which offers functionality to load, analyze, process and save pixel images. It is written in Java and comes with full source code under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

http://jiu.sourceforge.net/

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Managed C++ wrapper for Zlib

Posted in July 10th, 2004

In this article I present a namespace of managed types that provide a wrapper to some of the standard functionalities exported by ZLib. ZLib is a well known free, general-purpose lossless data-compression library for use on any operating system.

http://codeproject.com/managedcpp/mcppzlibwrapper.asp

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EmilCont Ultracompression

Posted in July 10th, 2004
Published in Results, Archiving

This site compares compressors on the basis of compression ratios only. Speed is not an issue.

http://www.freewebs.com/emilcont/

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Estimating entropy rates with Bayesian confidence intervals

Posted in July 10th, 2004

I’m pleased to announce with my co-authors availability of a preprint on our new algorithm to estimate the Shannon entropy rate (bits/symbol) or (bits/sec) of an observed sequence of low-alphabet symbols. It uses the Context-Tree-Weighting universal compression method, but doesnot use the compression ratio directly as an entropy estimator but as a scaffold for a […]

ftp://lyapunov.ucsd.edu/pub/nonlinear/bayesian_information/Kennel_Shlens_et_al_2004.pdf

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ImageMagick

Posted in July 10th, 2004

ImageMagick is a robust collection of tools and libraries offered under a free license to read, write, and manipulate an image in many image formats (over 87 major formats) including popular formats like TIFF, JPEG, PNG, PDF, PhotoCD, and GIF. Programming interfaces are provided for C/C++, Java, Perl, VB, and more.

Version 6.0.3 is shipping in […]

http://www.imagemagick.org/

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UPX - the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables

Posted in July 4th, 2004

Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer & László Molnár have created an executable packer that works on DOS, Linux, and Windows executables.
A DCL user had this to say: UPX is just excellent - and it’s free.

UPX 1.25 is shipping as of June, 2004.

http://upx.sourceforge.net/

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Zipdiff

Posted in July 4th, 2004

Use the zipdiff tool when you need to compare the contents of two zip files. It is equally suited for comparing jar files, EAR files, WAR files or RAR files. Run it standalone or as an Ant task. The tool supports three output formats: plain text, XML, and HTML. zipdiff is written in Java.

Release […]

http://zipdiff.sourceforge.net/

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The Heirloom Toolchest

Posted in July 4th, 2004

The Heirloom Toolchest includes Open Source cpio and tar implementations running on Linux, Solaris, and Open UNIX. cpio is able to read and write all known Unix cpio archive formats, including proprietary ones, and zip files, including support for the zip64 format.

The most recent update of the project was on June 30, 2004.

http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/

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