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  • Bijective BWT (6 Comments)

    David Scott has written a bijective BWT transform, which brings all the advantages of bijectiveness to BWT based compressors. Among other things, making BWT more suitable for compression-before-encryption and also give (slightly) better compression.

  • Asymmetric Binary System (113 Comments)

    Jarek Duda’s “Asymmetric Binary System” promises to be an alternate to arithmetic coding, having all the advantages, but being much simpler. Matt has coded a PAQ based compressor using ABS for back-end encoding. Update: Andrew Polar has written an alternate implementation of ABS.

  • Precomp: More Compression for your Compressed Files (3 Comments)

    So many of today’s files are already compressed (using old, outdated algorithms) that newer algorithms don’t even get a chance to touch them. Christian Schneider’s Precomp comes to rescue by undoing the harm.

  • On2 Technologies is Hiring

    There aren’t too many companies working on cutting edge codecs, and of those few this one is hiring. Best of luck.

  • China’s AVS Specifications Available (2 Comments)

    Its old news that China has developed their own Advanced Video Standard to avoid high licensing fees. English translation of the standard is now available, along with the IPR policy. Finally something technical that you can get your hands on to feed your appetite.

Microsoft Taiwan R&D Centre to Aim at Digital Media Compression

Posted by Sachin Garg on 17th September 2005 | Permanent Link

The Windows Media Engineering Center, jointly set up by Microsoft and a publicly funded Taiwanese research institute, aims to work on further developing products for a number of compression technologies.

The R&D centre will also tune into surround sound, high-resolution formats and ways to move media files more easily among devices throughout the home.

Applications and chips developed through their joint efforts would go into devices developed by Taiwanese companies for Windows Media Video and Windows Media Audio compression, and different kinds of optical disc standards such as Blu-ray and HD-DVD (High-Density DVD), as well as the Taiwan-developed Forward Versatile Disc (FVD) format.

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