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  • Bijective BWT (2 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 (107 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

    So many of today’s files are already compressed (using old, outdated algorithms) that newer algorithms don’t even get a chance to touch them.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 February, 2006

QuVIS and Rorke Data Team Up for NASA

28th February 2006

Press Release: QuVIS Recorders Integrated with Rorke Galaxy HDX Storage Selected for Return to Flight Program.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | Add Comment »

Yet Another Windows Class Supporting Zip

28th February 2006

Another Class for zipping and unzipping files under Win32, this time in both C++ and VB.

Read More | Posted by Mark Nelson | Add Comment »

Compressed XML based files formats in Microsoft Office 12

27th February 2006

Office 12 XML formats use compression technologies so files tend to take up much less disk space. In addition, microsoft has complete plans to put out of business current PowerPoint compressing products.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | 4 Comments »

1stWorks Makes News

27th February 2006

1stWorks plans on announcing their QI algorithm at DCC ‘06, issues a press releases so you are sure to be paying attention.

Read More | Posted by Mark Nelson | 2 Comments »

Forgent CEO Dick Snyder Talks

26th February 2006

InformationWeek is running an article “The U.S. Patent System In Crisis”. As a part of this, they talked to CEO of Forgent, the company pushing the JPEG patent.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | 2 Comments »

Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) Announces Collaboration With Fraunhofer Institute to Develop Digital Cinema System Compliance Test Procedures

26th February 2006

Press Release: Comprehensive Test Procedures Will Establish a Certification Benchmark for Digital Cinema Projectors, Servers, and Associated Equipment.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | Add Comment »

BT Introduces PowerPressed for Compressing PowerPoint Files

26th February 2006

Summary of a long complicated press release is that they “convert images to jpeg” to reduce size.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | 7 Comments »

Truthiness Confuses U.S. Patent System

24th February 2006

Truthiness, as defined in Wikipedia, is the quality by which a person purports to know something emotionally or instinctively, without regard to evidence or to what the person might conclude from intellectual examination.

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Coding Technologies and MTV Networks International Team up

24th February 2006

Press Release: Coding Technologies and MTV Networks International Team up to Optimize the Mobile Entertainment Experience. Strategic Partnership to Leverage Open Standards Mobile Media Platforms 3GSM World Congress 2006.

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Chinese AVS codec, rivaling H.264, is rising

22nd February 2006

Chinese audio/video codec is on the verge of becoming a national standard–a domestic rival to MPEG-4/H.264 and WMV-9 that backers say will save China-based manufacturers and consumers at least tens of millions of dollars in fees and royalties during the next few years.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | 5 Comments »