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  • Bijective BWT (7 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    So many of today’s files are already compressed (using old, outdated algorithms) that newer algorithms don’t even get a chance to touch them.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.

On2 Technologies Doubles Performance, Boosts Image Quality on TrueMotion VP7 Codec

Posted by Sachin Garg on 21st June 2005 | Permanent Link

In a press release, On2 Technologies, Inc. (Amex: ONT - News), today announced it has significantly enhanced its flagship video compression software, TrueMotion VP7. With this enhanced version of VP7, On2 has claimed more than doubled two-pass encoding rates, greatly increased image quality, doubled decode speeds and boosted performance specifications of its real-time encoding capability. These benchmarks position VP7 as outperforming competitive codecs — such as Windows Media 9, Real 10 and most implementations of H.264 — by up to 30 - 50%.

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