Risks and Rewards and Human-Perception and Predecition in PPM models. Maybe these are really related.

The CodeProject hosts an update of article detailing the MPEG Audio Frame header format

Press Release: InterObject, a provider of turnkey outsourced software development projects, as well as customized software solutions, announced that Global IP Sound has chosen to integrate the company’s MPEG-4 and H.264 video encoding and decoding technology with its own technology base.

John Allen Paulos takes us on a tour starting with complexity and ending with incompleteness.

Streaming21, provider of broadcast-quality streaming solutions, announced that it will demonstrate its new H.264 streaming solutions & advanced IPTV/Triple-play applications at the IPTV Asia Forum in Hong Kong. Karaoke-on-Demand (KoD) is another spotlight to be first introduced in Hong Kong.

TMCnet: DirecTV Inc. recently started transmitting high-definition MPEG-4 signals in Detroit and plans to bring MPEG-4 technology to each of its markets during the next few years.

Riccard Linde at Gamasutra examines the use of the hardware DXT compression method, and how to efficiently manage the visual results of texture compression.

There is a new algorithm for entropy coding, constrained coding and fast combinatorial enumeration.

Yet Another Compression Library

PCWorld: Updated Helix Server Unlimited supports streaming multimedia to handhelds.