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    So many of today’s files are already compressed (using old, outdated algorithms) that newer algorithms don’t even get a chance to touch them.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

Compression protest caused termination?

31st March 2006

A Kodak employee claims she protested a plan to increase compression of customer’s photos and got axed for it.

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Video Codec Tutorial Time

31st March 2006

A couple of TI video experts give you the rundown on video codecs.

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Digg reacts to Euclid

29th March 2006

The folks on Digg read the press release of Euclid Discoveries and generously offer their opinions.

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Euclid Discoveries (finally) Announces Huge Improvement Over MPEG-4

28th March 2006

Euclid Discoveries claims 460% improvement over H.264 with Object-Based Compression technology.

Read More | Posted by Mark Nelson | 10 Comments »

Compact format for video processing platform

27th March 2006

Press Release: Targeting developers who are looking to implement high-end video processing and storage system under severe size constraints, YMagic Technologies recently announced availability of its new Pluto-3 video processing platform.

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Digital Cinema (JPEG2000) Reaches Europe

27th March 2006

Press Release: Disney’s ‘Chicken Little’ is first film shown commercially in Europe to be compatible with Hollywood standards for digital cinema.

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Chinese delegates call for more support for China’s Audio and Video Coding Standard (AVS).

23rd March 2006

ChinaTechNews: Eleven Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) delegates have submitted a proposal to the 10th CPPCC calling for more support to be given to China’s Audio and Video Coding Standard (AVS).

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On2 Technologies Launches Linux Video Encoding SDK for Macromedia Flash Player 8

22nd March 2006

Press Release: On2 Technologies announced availability of the On2 Flix Engine for Linux.

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Philips joining the game?

18th March 2006

Philips following in Forgent’s footsteps in asking for JPEG royalties?

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Moderator will be Travelling

17th March 2006

Your moderator (me) will be travelling across US during next 2 weeks. This may translate into a more than usual delay in moderations, news postings and mail replies. I have listed my travel plans, in case I can meet some of you in person.

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