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    So many of today’s files are already compressed (using old, outdated algorithms) that newer algorithms don’t even get a chance to touch them.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

C++ Poised for Its Next Stages

10th November 2005

The evolution of the language can be seen in the plans for the next version, dubbed C++Ox, new open-source additions, and the reception for certain enhancements to the language.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | 2 Comments »

MPEG LA Announces Plan for Blu-Ray (TM) Patent License

10th November 2005

Call for Essential Intellectual Property is First Step.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | Add Comment »

Image Converter Software supports over 340 image formats.

10th November 2005

ReaSoft Development Releases ReaConverter 4.0 It supports Over 340 Image Formats.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | 2 Comments »

On2 On Display at Streaming Media West 2005

9th November 2005

Executives from On2 will be in the On2 Technologies booth (#512) to demonstrate the On2 Flix family of video compression technologies, as well as innovative new On2 VP7-enabled video VoIP and mobile streaming applications.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | Add Comment »

IIPimage Windows installer for server version 0.9.5

8th November 2005

IIPimage Windows installer for server version 0.9.5 released, its a client/server system which lets you view very high resolution large images on slow connections, using multi-resolution tiled TIFF images.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | 2 Comments »

SharpEntropy Library

8th November 2005

The CodeProject hosts an article on a library used for entropy modeling of natural languages.

Read More | Posted by Mark Nelson | Add Comment »

libdivsufsort-1.0.0 released

7th November 2005

Yuta Mori has released version 1.0.0 of divsufsort, a very fast and lightweight suffix sorting algorithm.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | 2 Comments »

Computer Science Conference Rankings

7th November 2005

Guofei Gu has placed a ranking of many computer science conferences. I dont know how valid these rankings are.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | Add Comment »

More useless DRM

7th November 2005

Benedek Toth writes at p2pnet about why he thinks the DRM scheme used in HD-DVD (and Blu-ray) standard is useless.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | Add Comment »

MSufSort 2.2 is now available

4th November 2005

Michael A Maniscalco’s MSufSort version 2.2 is now available and is about 10% faster than 2.1

Posted by Sachin Garg | 1 Comment »