The Data Compression Newsletter - January 2006
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A monthly roundup of all news and happenings reported at The Data Compression News Blog. More information about this newsletter at http://www.c10n.info/newsletter
Here is last month’s news, enjoy…
Quicktime compression notes
2006-01-31 By Mark
http://www.c10n.info/archives/340
Apple’s latest newsletter has a big batch of tech note entries on compression with QuickTime.
PAQ8A (alpha?) Released
2006-01-30 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/339
Matt Mahoney announced release of PAQ8A at comp.compression. The is an experimental pre-release of the PAQ8 archiver.
On2 Technologies Chief Douglas McIntyre Interviewed on the NAMC Newswire
2006-01-28 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/337
On2 Technologies CEO Douglas McIntyre completed an interview with the NAMC Newswire. The interview is available for immediate listening.
India plans mobile TV satellite
2006-01-28 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/336
EETimes: The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) is finalizing the design of a specially-loaded satellite having a big antenna that can be unfurled to provide mobile television signals. This satellite will use MPEG 4 standards for compression.
China’s CTTnet incorporates On2’s VP7 video compression technology for mobile phones
2006-01-26 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/335
Press Release: On2 Technologies CTTnet announced that they have made significant progress in the development and deployment throughout China of a broad range of mobile streaming applications based on On2’s TrueMotion VP7 Technology.
New Patent Issued for Clareos
2006-01-26 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/334
Clareos uses a columnar data representation with unique compression algorithms that are optimized for large-volume data queries and disk I/O efficiency. To achieve maximum performance, Clareos is the first technology company to maintain compression throughout the entire query operation process, a significant breakthrough enabling on-demand analysis of multi-terabyte datasets.
SafeDeflateStream
2006-01-24 By Mark
http://www.c10n.info/archives/333
Jason Thomas has written a .NET class that safely wraps Microsoft’s deflate methods
Ever heard of JPEG 2000?
2006-01-23 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/332
If you thought JPEG 2000 is not getting its fair share of attention, think again.
A Tour of Turing
2006-01-23 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/331
Scientific American: The life and death of Alan Turing continue to offer up mysteries
Monkeys Audio 4.01 Beta 1
2006-01-22 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/330
The Lossless Audio Blog: There is finally some activity in the development of Monkey’s Audio. A new beta has been released and the only portion that is still in beta is the user interface. The compression and decompression is fully stable.
David A Scott improves compression and speed of fpaq0
2006-01-20 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/329
David A. Scott submits fpaq0s, which improves compression and speed over fpaq0b (order 0 coder).
Video Compression Players Should “Compress” Hype
2006-01-20 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/328
“The Diffusion Group” talks about all the hype recently generated by many companies offering Video compression solutions and all the claims made my them. Article also says why everything technically interesting might not become a market success.
Flaws in the way F-Secure software handles ZIP and RAR archives
2006-01-19 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/327
ZDNet: Security vendor F-Secure issued a patch Thursday to deal with critical flaws in a number of its antivirus and Internet security products.
Wavelet Image Compression Library 3.0
2006-01-18 By Mark
http://www.c10n.info/archives/326
Update of a free image compression library
Mobile tech. devised to show routes to safety in case of disaster
2006-01-16 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/324
Based on an advanced 3D information data-compression technology, Mitsubishi Electric, NTT DoCoMo and Pasco have jointly developed a technology to provide cellphones with three-dimensional, real-time information on routes for escape to safety in the case of natural disasters such as earthquakes.
Indra Intros StorCompress MX3
2006-01-16 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/323
Press Release: MX3 implements compression algorithm entirely in hardware for Virtual Tape Library (VTL) and Disk-based backup systems (based on the “deflate”). StorCompress MX3 hardware architecture includes 64-bit, 133 MHz PCI-X bus interface and multiple compression engines working in tandem to deliver compression/decompression throughputs of up to 450 MB/s and 480 MB/s respectively.
The top 5
2006-01-14 By Mark
http://www.c10n.info/archives/322
100-downloads.com is willing to suggest a few compression programs for you windows users
Lufthansa Systems implements PKWare’s SecureZIP Solution
2006-01-12 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/321
After a long time, we hear about PKWare still being alive and kicking.
Sorenson releases Squeeze 4.3 update
2006-01-12 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/320
Press Release: Sorenson Media released Squeeze 4.3, an update to its cross-platform video compression suite that brings new tools to enhance and support multimedia creation using Macromedia Flash.
PC Mag Takes a Look at DivX Create
2006-01-11 By Mark
http://www.c10n.info/archives/319
The DivX Create Bundle is a real bargain - but is it worth it?
Quantized Indexing Update
2006-01-10 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/318
An update on much talked about Quantized Indexing, which claims to be a better replacement for Arithmetic Coding.
NXPowerLite 2.1
2006-01-10 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/317
Version 2.1 contains a few improvements, including support for CMYK images.
Compress your ASP.NET 2.0 pages
2006-01-07 By Mark
http://www.c10n.info/archives/314
Casual Jim writes up the straight dope on how to get this done in .NET 2.0
Lossless Audio Compression Gaining Ground
2006-01-07 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/313
A brief look at Lossless Audio Blog confirms that lossless audio compression is getting more popular each day.
Broadcom Powers Toshiba’s HD-DVD Players with a High-Performance HD Video Decoder Chip
2006-01-07 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/312
Press Release: Toshiba First to Announce HD-DVD Players. The HD-DVD standard mandates very high speed multi-codec decoder functionality, which is something Broadcom had been focusing on for the last several years.
Video iPod Bandwagon Open for Business
2006-01-05 By Mark
http://www.c10n.info/archives/311
Mobilygen Inc. claims first iPod-compatible chip, or something
XviD 1.1 released
2006-01-04 By Mark
http://www.c10n.info/archives/310
An update to XviD , the open source MPEG-4 codec.
Compressed Index Web Site
2006-01-03 By Mark
http://www.c10n.info/archives/309
Compressed Indices explored in the Pizza and Chili Corpus
Broadcom Announces First Fully Compliant High-Definition Decoder Chip for Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD Media Players
2006-01-03 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/308
Press Release: New HD Decoder Chip is Based on Field-Proven Technology Developed for High-Definition Set-Top Boxes for Cable, Satellite and IPTV Applications.
On2 Technologies and XM Satellite Radio Unveil Collaboration for Satellite Video Delivery at CES
2006-01-03 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/307
Press Release: In-Vehicle Systems to Feature On2 VP7 Video Technology
A/V Codec provides TV-quality video for mobile products.
2006-01-02 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/306
Press Release: Drawing less than 185 mW total chip power, single-chip MG1264 enables battery-powered products to capture, play, and share TV-quality VGA 30 fps H.264 (MPEG-4 Part 10 Advanced Video Codec) video with 2-channel AAC audio compression. Complete A/V codec solution, implemented as chip-level A/V co-processor, enables one hour or more of video functions on existing platforms by utilizing EVE (Enabling Video Everywhere) chip architecture.
Forgent signs another agreement over JPEG-related patent
2006-01-01 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/305
There have been so many such announcements by now that its getting boring to report them. This time its with Océ North America, terms of agreement were not disclosed.
MDI Acquires Patent for Video Data Storage
2006-01-01 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/304
MDI’s newly acquired patent covers a method for storing video data in a mass storage device where once the mass storage device has reached its capacity, the oldest video data is degraded by removing random pixels from the video frame.
MatrixStream to showcase High Definition IPTV over Powerline at CES 2006
2006-01-01 By Sachin Garg
http://www.c10n.info/archives/303
Press Release: MatrixStream technology leverages proprietary H.264 end-to-end solution, allowing viewers to watch videos in DVD or HD over any best effort broadband; capable of instant VOD, streaming DVD-quality video in real time.
Thatz all for last month, to submit news and to keep track of news as it happens, you can visit http://www.c10n.info
Sachin Garg [India]
http://www.sachingarg.com