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    So many of today’s files are already compressed (using old, outdated algorithms) that newer algorithms don’t even get a chance to touch them.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

AT&T Announces MPEG-4 Video Licensing Agreement with Nero

Posted by Sachin Garg on 14th July 2005 | Permanent Link

In a press release, AT&T today announced that Nero is the newest licensee of its MPEG-4 video worldwide licensing program. The patents underlying this global licensing effort are considered essential to the practice of the MPEG-4 video standard.

AT&T says that it is working to ensure that all providers of MPEG-4 compliant products and services have an opportunity to take a license to AT&T’s MPEG-4 patents, omitting the need for AT&T to enforce proper payments in the chain of distribution.

Seems like patented standards (with licensing fees) are becoming more of a norm rather than an exception.

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