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Archive for June, 2006

JPEG’s Reply to Microsoft WMP: Better JPEG?

15th June 2006

The new ITU extension to JPEG offers better (and faster) compression by introducing a new (backward incompatible) alternative Q15 arithmetic coding. Color precision is increased to maximum 16 bits per color component.

Read More | Posted by Sachin Garg | 4 Comments »

DivX 6.2.5 Codec

15th June 2006

DivX has released a new version of their free Windows codec featuring “sharpening”

Read More | Posted by Mark Nelson | 1 Comment »