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    So many of today’s files are already compressed (using old, outdated algorithms) that newer algorithms don’t even get a chance to touch them.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

Archive for September, 2005

NASA to Deliver Real-Time High Definition Video and Images From Space

12th September 2005

LSI Logic Corporation announced that NASA will be leveraging the LSI Logic HDTVxpress Compressor PCI board to provide real-time high definition (HD) content creation capabilities aboard future space missions.

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Old Format, New Bug

12th September 2005

Secunia Research has discovered a vulnerability in NOD32 Anti-Virus in the way it handles ARJ archives, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

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Dolby Announces Lossless Audio Technology, TrueHD

11th September 2005

Dolby’s TrueHD is a step up from the previous MLP Lossless, a mandatory audio codec in the HD DVD format as well as optional feature in the Blu-ray Disc format.

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Modulus Video Provides Compression System Management Solutions for Mission-Critical AVC Operations

10th September 2005

New Modulus Compression System Manager (MCSM) Delivers Configuration, Monitoring, Software Upgrades and Fault Management for Large and Small Operations.

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Third US Patent Issued for Even Technologies’ Compression Technology

9th September 2005

Even Technologies announced the issuing of a third US patent which is to be added to their intellectual property portfolio. This patent represents one of five granted patents in over six regions worldwide.

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High Performance Multi-Core MPEG Grid-Encoder

9th September 2005

Rhozet Corporation introduced the Graphite MPEG Grid Encoder, a high performance MPEG encoder that fully utilizes the available computing power in professional and post-production environments.

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PJPEG2000

8th September 2005

A Novel Approach to Improve the Performance of JPEG2000

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Initial Proof of Concept Successful in Optimizing FIX for Streaming Market Data

8th September 2005

FIX Protocol Ltd. announced initial results from the Market Data Optimization Working Group Proof of Concept (POC) which is a focused effort designed to develop practical solutions for the efficient dissemination of market data.

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Data compression is NOT the magic pill

7th September 2005

Vodafone and Telecom went head2head comparing performances of their internet data-cards at MS TechEd developer conference. Surprisingly, compression was used by the loosing party (Vodafone).

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Allegro Introduces H.264/MPEG-4 AVC First Compliance Test Suites At IBC

6th September 2005

Allegro will introduce MPEG-4 AVC first certification tools at IBC in Amsterdam. Reportedly, the Allegro Test Suites are first class tools able to guarantee an H.264 /AVC video decoder to be compliant with the H.264 /AVC standard.

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