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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    So many of today’s files are already compressed (using old, outdated algorithms) that newer algorithms don’t even get a chance to touch them.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 October, 2005

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MSufSort version 2.1 is now available.

23rd October 2005

Michael A Maniscalco announces availability of a new version of his state-of-the-art suffix sorting algorithm.

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Mac News

23rd October 2005

Problems are reported for QuickTime for Mac, while some good words flow in on latest StuffIt release.

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Curtain goes up on premium web video

23rd October 2005

Video over IP will become the most lucrative and popular premium subscription services offered via the internet, industry watchers predicted today.

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Qualcomm files second suit against Broadcom

23rd October 2005

The patent dispute between chipmakers Qualcomm Inc. and Broadcom Corp. continues to heat up, with Qualcomm filing a second lawsuit against Broadcom.

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iTnews: Dolby to showcase DRM technology, Digital Cinema based on Jpeg2000

21st October 2005

Dolby to showcase DRM technology and JPEG 2000 compression standard based digital cinema. Dolby’s servers run on Linux.

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DirecTV Contracts LG for MPEG-4 Set-Tops

21st October 2005

DirecTV Inc. has contracted LG Electronics Inc. to be the first supplier of HDTV set-top boxes for a new next-generation video compression technology, the company announced Wednesday.

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Fixed point OpenLPC codec released under LGPL

20th October 2005

Phil Frisbie of Hawksoft announced at comp.compression that his commercial fixed point OpenLPC codec will now be dual licensed as LGPL or commercial software.

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Implementing file compression and encryption in VB6 using the Microsoft .NET Framework

20th October 2005

Microsoft publishes an MSDN article describing how to easily use compression in .NET

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Stuffit Deluxe 9.0.1

19th October 2005

A bugfix update for Stuffit Deluxe 9 has been released

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Patterns considered interesting

19th October 2005

At its heart, Data Compression is nothing more than the search for recognizable structure and patterns. UC Davis finds this interesting.

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