Commercial Programs. In general, this includes both shareware and conventional retail programs. Stuff you have to pay for to use. There is obviously some blurring of the lines, (for example some shareware is free for individual use), but when there is doubt, I usually err towards classifying a product as commercial.
Zip Password Tool is an utility designed to recover lost or forgotten passwords for encrypted ZIP archives created using WinZip, PKZip or any other ZIP-compatible software. The following password search methods are supported:
brute force attack; dictionary-based attack.
Created: 08/02/2007
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YUVTools are a set of software utilities to play, convert, edit and analyze YUV or RGB video data in their raw formats.
The user can play many different YUV/RGB formats, with full playing controls. The user can also convert one YUV/RGB format to another, compare two YUV files and display their difference, calculate the PSNR, crop or flip a yuv file, join two yuv files, etc. Command line options for batch playing and converting also supported.
Free 30 days trial.
Created: 25/03/2007
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BetterJPEG allows for editing JPEG images without recompression in many cases. Lossless operations include rotation, flip, crop, red eye removal, date/text/EXIF data imprinting and more. There is a stand-alone editor, plug-in for Photoshop and DLL library as well. There are free trial versions.
Created: 12/10/2006
by Maxim SmirnovMore...
This is a solid example of outrageous author rights violations and unreal claims. Or of a joke.
Creators claim: "We would like to introduce you to a new Compression Technology named LAN (patent pending) which aims to offer good compression ratio's for most data types (Images, Audio, Video, Texts), a first beta version for our first product (Infima Archiver) is available at www.myinfima.com." They also claim surrealistic results for video compression on their site. Here this archiver is soundly and in a justifiable way blamed for concealed usage of many third-parties archivers and compressors to do the actual job.
Created: 04/04/2006
by Nir HalowaniMore...
The CyberLink H.264 Player provides H.264 decoder and AAC decoder using ATI graphics cards hardware capabilities. Requires ATI x1300 or higher. There is a 30-day trial.
Created: 13/03/2006
by Maxim SmirnovMore...
VOCAL Technologies sells quite a number of ITU-T speech codecs. The company has solutions for G.711, G.722.1, G723.1, G.726, G.727, G.728, G.729.
Created: 30/01/2006
by Maxim SmirnovMore...
Real is making their client software available in an Open Source program. Download this software and you can develop your own MP3 or H.263 player! Free of royalties if you are distributing it for free - commercial products pay a royalty. The Helix DNA Client contains support in source code form for the following data types: MP3, H.263, SMIL, JPEG, GIF, PNG, RealPix, PCM, WAV.
Created: 30/10/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
This J2ME (Java 2 Microedition) application allows mobile phones to send/receive compressed messages in a deflate format, optimized for short strings. It can achieve the ratio 1/2, i.e. two original messages are compressed in only one message. A recipient must have the similar application.
It costs $10.
Created: 28/01/2006
by Antonio SantagiulianaMore...
Historical: Full-featured archiver AIN, the extracting utility AINEXT and the EXE-files compressor AINEXE. Compression/extraction methods used in the AIN archiver excels noticeably those used in well-known archivers, such as ARJ, LHA and PKZIP, in both the compression rate and the performance.
See http://www.compression.ru/arctest/self/ain.htm for detailed info.
Created: 28/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Vegas 6 software combines real-time SD, DV, and HDV video editing with unrivaled audio tools to provide the ultimate all-in-one environment.
From version 6c has H.264/AVC support.
Created: 11/11/2005
by Dmitriy VatolinMore...
Software converter available in online shop. MPEG-4 SP and MPEG-4 AAC (audio) support enables the creation of video files for playback on the Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP). PowerEncoder MPEG-4 AVC prepares users for the widespread introduction of products and services based on the MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) and MPEG-4 SP formats, including: Digital TV, high-definition cable and satellite, high-definition DVDs, and video transmission via mobile phones.
Created: 11/11/2005
by Dmitriy VatolinMore...
Software encoder, no download. Developers claims speed optimization, but compare only with reference codec and H.263.
Created: 10/11/2005
by Dmitriy VatolinMore...
This company makes the AMBE-2020, a Vocoder chip that compresses speech down to a miniscule 4 Kbps. They have an additional product library of low bit-rate codes both in hardware and software.
Created: 21/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Clipstream Video is an streaming video encoder and server technology that uses only standard web servers. Clipstream compresses video (.mpeg, .mov, .avi) to its streaming video format. A java applet on a web page is used to decode the stream, no additional plugins or downloads are needed. One can try Clipstream Video without restriction, except for a flashing logo. Similarly, you can stream and play only audio with Clipstream Audio solution.
Created: 19/08/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
A shareware program that uses the look and feel of Windows Explorer to navigate Zip files.
Version 4.7 of this program is shipping as of October, 2005.
Created: 15/11/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
A Multiplatform data compression program, looks like it runs on a wide variety of IBM mini and mainframes. No free download. Company has a dual-language web site, with English and German language versions.
Created: 09/06/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
This archiving package works with zip files, creates encrypted archives, wipes files, etc. From site:
Advanced Encryption Package 2005 Professional most noteworthy feature may be its flexibility and military grade encryption: program includes 17 encryption algorithms (Rijndael, TWOFISH, BLOWISH, CAST, MARS, and TEA). Password and RSA alg. encryption using PKI infrastructure. The program includes a file shredder that wipes the contents of your original files. Complete support for ZIP archives. Skinnable interface (+12 skins). Complete Command Line Interface support.
Created: 27/09/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
This program from Gammadyne is used to create a professional quality installation program out of an archive file.
Version 13.2 was shipping as of May, 2005.
Created: 20/06/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
Archiver with GUI and really very high compression ratio. Besides proprietory RK archive format, WinRK supports the most common formats -- ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, RAR and ISO. Encryption with 128bit block ciphers. WinRK v3.0.2 beta trial version is shipped as of Jan 2006.
Created: 15/07/2005
by Maxim SmirnovMore...
A shareware visual archiving program that advertises that it supports 15 popular archive formats. Note the link to the French version of the program and web page.
Created: 02/04/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
A very complete archive of compression programs, freeware, shareware, source, archviers, compressors, etc. They have it all. At last count this site has more than 1000 compression downloads
Created: 13/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
PICVideo is the fastest M-JPEG codec available, and is perfect for viewing Motion JPEG files on Windows Media Player. It offers incredibly high-speed compression and decompression of M-JPEG streams. The PICVideo M-JPEG Codec is both a Microsoft Video for Windows Codec and a Microsoft DirectShow Transform Filter Codec.
Created: 18/07/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Alparysoft Lossless Video Codec is for encoding (compression) and decoding (decompression) of video.
Without any mathematical losses (i.e. source and destination video are absolutely identical after encoding/decoding process), the compression ratio is twice - 5 times.
Without any visual losses, i.e. human eye won't be able to see any difference between source and destination video, the compression ratio is 5-15 times.
Sentivision has implemented and optimized a H.264 decoder on the Texas Instruments DM642 DSP (Digital Signal Processor). The decoder complements other Video-on-Demand offerings to form a complete solution for streaming DVD-quality video over DSL lines and other low and medium bandwidth networks.
Created: 18/07/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Popwire H264 encoder is all a part of Popwire's Compression Master and
Compression Engine encoding sollutions. Demo software available from the site (Encoding is limited to 20 seconds).
Created: 28/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
The Moonlight MPEG & AVC OneClick Compressor is designed to capture media data from DV camcorders (using FireWire/IEEE-1394 adapters) and MPEG-2 files and convert it into AVC/H.264, MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 files that you can burn to a CD/DVD, post on-line or email to friends over networks. Just choose the video, select settings and click Start. Moonlight OneClick Compressor guarantees the top quality encoding while remaining an easy to use program.
Created: 20/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
FastVDO’s H.264 software CODEC is a compliant implementation on ITU-T/H.264 | ISO/IEC MPEG-4 Part 10, Baseline, Main, and High Profiles. We offer pure ANSI C++ versions that are fully portable on all operating systems, as well as highly optimized code for the Pentium platform. Pentium platform solutions extensively use MMX and SIMD features to provide real-time High Profile HD video playback.
Created: 20/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Audio & Video encoders ane decoders. Evaluation copy on request.
From the site:
...real-time software design solution using the contemporary programmable processors (x86, DSP, MIPS, ARC) running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. SoftStream™ SDKs are currently being implemented in standard-based real-time encoding, decoding, transrating and transcoding applications.
Created: 19/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Support for AVC encoding (H.264)
Create content for the newest formats in the industry - H.264 and High Definition (HD) H.264.
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Created: 19/06/2005
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Specifications for Sonic’s HD-Series AVC encoder include:
High Profile, Level 4.1 AVC HD streams, compliant with HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc specifications
Bit rate-controlled CBR/VBR and quantization-controlled VBR encoding modes
Precise segment-based re-encoding for ultimate control of bit rate and quality
DTS™ HD and Dolby® Digital audio codec support
Support for uncompressed, 4:2:2, 10-bit AVI and QuickTime™ source video files
Advanced AVC toolkit including CABAC, motion search range, reference frames, Inter search shape, and P/B-slice prediction lists
Seamless integration and stream compatibility with Sonic Scenarist® HD and Sonic Blu-ray™ Creator production workstations
Created: 20/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Demo available on request.
Codec for videoconferencing.
From the site:
Benefits
Substantially increased coding efficiency, providing the
same picture quality as products that are based on H.263
or MPEG-4 at nearly half the bit rate.
Flexibility in handling different delay constraints in video
applications, such as providing very little delay for real-time
communications applications (e.g. videoconferencing), while allowing
higher processing delay in applications with no delay constraints (e.g. video storage).
Error resilience and error concealment tools to maintain the video
quality against packet loss and bit errors in error prone networks.
Created: 19/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Only demo, but you can buy codec online (100$). Who test it?
From codecs site:
Key features of LEAD H.264 Video Codecs:
User definable motion estimation settings controls
the balance between encoder speed and quality.
Multiple reference frames of any combination of past and future
frames, provides precise interprediction as well as improved
robustness during packet loss while streaming over the network or Internet.
Unrestricted motion search uses reference frames that may be partly
outside the frame improving network performance by predicting missing data.
Only the difference between motion vectors is saved, increasing the compression ratio.
Intraprediction may be performed either on 4x4 blocks or 16x16.
Motion vector prediction is performed before the frame is prepared for
compression (pre-DCT) improving prediction and compression performance.
Computation is more efficient because LEAD implements the traditional
Discrete Cosine Transform (DCT) as an integer transform.
The LEAD H.264 encoder makes use of the SAD HADMARD calculation to increase the compression ratio.
A context-sensitive deblocking filter smoothes out internal edges, significantly improving the visual quality of the video. The filter strength depends upon the prediction modes and relationship between the neighboring blocks.
Employs Context-Adaptive Variable Length Coding (CAVLC) to encode transform coefficients.
The Context-Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coding (CABAC) method continually updates frequency statistics of the incoming data and adaptively adjusts the algorithm, improving compression performance.
The LEAD H.264 encoder provides the user with control of the number and types of frames encoded into the video stream.
Created: 19/06/2005
by Dmitriy KulikovMore...
Integrated. Who test it? Any remarks welcome!
From codec site:
The H.264 encoder features:
Intelligent multi-pass encoding for the best possible results at the desired bit rate with the optimal number of compression passes.
Time-saving single-pass encoding for creating draft encodes,
meeting impending deadlines and live encoding with QuickTime Broadcaster.
Peak-constrained VBR options for limited data-rate scenarios
such as streaming and CD/DVD playback.
Advanced frame reordering (B-frame) support to more efficiently
represent movie data.
4x4 integer transform for reducing traditional blocking and
ringing artifacts, especially in areas of fine detail.
Improved intraframe prediction for more efficient compression
of details and gradients in high-motion video.
Increased precision in motion estimation for crisp reconstruction
of objects in motion.
Flexible block sizes in motion estimation for more efficient
encoding of complicated motion in areas of fine detail.
Adaptively tuned in-loop deblocking filter for eliminating
blocking artifacts, resulting in a smooth, clean image.
Created: 19/06/2005
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CODEC is a software package that focuses on the non-destructive compression/decompression and the encryption/deciphering of one or more files in the same work session.
Created: 07/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Another Win32 archiver that can work with a zillion formats. Recent new features added to BitZipper include deflate64 support, ACE archive support, AES 128- and 256-bit encryption, and better integration with the Windows shell.
BitZipper 4.1 shipped in November, 2004.
Created: 01/03/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
Commercial software (expensive). Evaluation version available on request.
Software tool for video format checking, compression analysis, testing and optimisation. It supports the following video formats:
- H.264/AVC: Baseline, Main, Extended and High Profiles/FRExt (incl. High 10, 4:2:2 and 4:4:4)
- MPEG-4 Simple Profile and Advanced Simple Profile
- MPEG-2 Main Profile Main Level and High Level
- SMPTE VC-1 / WMV9 Simple, Main and Advanced Profiles
- H.263+, H.263 and H.261
plus the following audio codecs:
- MPEG-1/MPEG-2 audio
- AAC
- AACplus
- HE AAC
with several other audio codecs being added.
Created: 31/05/2005
by Thomas DoveMore...
MainConcept is proud to announce the immediate availability of our H.264 Encoder Preview Version for Microsoft® Windows®! Although not yet optimized for speed, this free demo will enable you to sample the quality of our newest codec. H.264 AVC (Advanced Video Coding), also known as MPEG-4 Part 10, is an exciting new standard which offers many advantages and has the potential to replace existing standards.
H.264 SDK available
Created: 14/02/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
WinAmp is a very popular freeware MP3 player for Windows PCs.
WinAmp is shipping version 5.0.3 as of March, 2004.
Created: 28/03/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
Good collection of codecs!
Contain saved copyes of codecs, removed from original sites and older versions of codecs.
Created: 15/05/2005
by Dmitriy VatolinMore...
Image Power has released a beta version of their JPEG2000 codec. It's free to use for evaluation and non-commercial applications.
Created: 12/04/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
The home page for the shareware ACE archiver, including download links. Both self extracting and Zipped versions of the file are available from this page. This page also includes free source code for UNACE, and variants on ACE and UNACE. Reader comment Excellent user interface, better compression than Zip.
Created: 23/12/1998
by Mark NelsonMore...
Yet another Windows archiving program. PowerArchiver comes with a nice long list of supported formats: ZIP, CAB, LHA (LZH), TAR, TAR.GZ, TAR.BZ2, BH, RAR, ARJ, ARC, ACE, ZOO, GZ, BZIP2, XXE, and UUE. Plus a built-in viewer for JPG, GIF, and a few other formats.
Release 9.0 of PowerArchiver shipped July, 2004.
Created: 16/07/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
PicoZip is an award winning file compression utility that runs on all 32-bit Windows platforms such as Windows 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP. It is extremely easy to use, yet contains many advanced features that helps you create or unzip ZIP files, as well as most other popular archive formats like RAR, ACE, LHA, JAR, etc.
PicoZip 3.0 shipping as of July, 2004.
DataCompression.info user Derek P. had this to say: This is one of the best Zip Utilities out there! The Batch Testing of Archives tool is fast and accurate!!! Other Zip Utility Makers need to take notes!.
Created: 16/07/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
WMA To MP3 Converter was written for converting WMA to or from MP3/WAV files. So, with WMA to MP3 Converter, you may convert WMA to MP3, convert WMA to WAV, convert WAV to WMA, convert MP3 to WMA.
Created: 10/07/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
PNG/MNG Construction Set represents the state of the art in animation software. It will assemble your original animations effortlessly through its Animation Wizard, squeeze them down to as close to nothing as possible with its Supercompressor; create eyecatching banners and animated transitions; manage your MNG files; add transparency to existing PNG graphics and a lot more.
Version 2.0.25 is shipping as of June, 2004.
Created: 20/06/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
Unlike the compression built into IIS 4 and 5 (Windows NT/2000), IIS 6.0 offers out-of-the-box compression embedded into the core Web server code itself, allowing for extremely fast HTTP compression with minimal resource penalties. ZipEnable offers flexible compression management and browser compatibility detection for IIS 6.0 internal compression engine.
Version 3.0 is shipping as of Sept., 2005.
Created: 20/06/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
Does everything you want, and costs a lot less than the two market leaders!
Version 3.0 is shipping as of June, 2004.
Created: 14/06/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
PKWare lets you create secure SFX files for distributing data. However, they aren't going to tell you how much you have to pay on this page - you have to fill out an inquiry form and send it to their sales team.
Created: 13/06/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
PECompact compresses Windows executables significantly, while allowing them to be run as normal. You can compresses code, data, import/export table, and selected resources. Section merging and resource data restructuring are also supported. It trims, optimizes, and realigns the PE structure while preserving shell icons and version information, or any other resources you chose to leave uncompressed. Uses its own JCALG1 compression, which offers decent compression speed, great compression ratio, and extremely rapid decompression.
Version 2.28 is shipping in June, 2004.
Created: 13/06/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
Petite is a Win32 (Windows 95/98/2000/NT/XP) executable (EXE/DLL/etc...) compressor. The compressed executables decompress themselves at run time, and can be used just like the original uncompressed versions. Petite also adds virus detection to the compressed executables - they will check themselves for infection every time they are executed.
Created: 13/06/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
This is reportedly a Win32 exe packer. However, this is a Chinese langauge site so even that is just a guess.
Created: 13/06/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
This is reputedly the home page of the PeX executable cracker. However, the fact that the page appears to be in Polish keeps me from saying more than that.
Created: 13/06/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
MP3 To WAV Converter is designed for converting MP3 to WAV and converting WAV to MP3. It converts batches of MP3 to WAV or WAV to MP3 on-the-fly. Play MP3/WAV files, edit Mp3 file's ID3 text, and search MP3 or WAV files from a folder or the whole disk.
Created: 06/06/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
JIMZip is an easy-to-use, yet powerful, zipping and unzipping interface for MacOS X. Using JIMZip you can compress your files with a simple drag to either the JIMZip dock icon, or dragging window. JIMZip is compatible with programs such as: WinZip, PowerArchiver, PKZip, ZipIt, Aladdin Expander, Stuffit DropZip, and more..
Version 1.42 is shipping as of May, 2004.
Created: 31/05/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
An archiver that manages the usual gamut of archive types. Wizards and stuff.
Release 7.02 was shipping in May of 2004.
Created: 31/05/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
This package includes 12Zip and 12Zip2. The first version uses Zip compatible compression, and the second uses a BWT variant.
Version 7.0 of the package is shipping as of May, 2004
Created: 14/05/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
This backup program stores your data in standard Zip files, created either manually or automatically. The usual host of backup features are supported, such as the ability to backup the registry, E-mail messages, your address book, and so on. You can download a 15-day trial version of this commercial program.
It appears that version 2.10 of this program shipped in January, 2004.
Created: 13/05/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
AutoZIP Backup is professional software that lets you automate the backup of your precious files to a ZIP archive.
Version 1.0 of this product is shipping as of April, 2004.
Created: 19/04/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
WS:Compress Out is a member of Websetters family of Microsoft Office Add-Ins. This Add-In extends the functionality of Microsoft Outlook 2000, 2002 and 2003. Every time you send an email that contains attachments, WS:Compress Out will automatically compress the attachment and resave in the mail item. This reduces the amount of storage used by you in your Outlook storage, reduces the time online and network bandwidth used, reduces the amount of storage used by your recipients - all saving you money.
Created: 11/04/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
This program creates a very high secure AES /Serpent/Twofish 256 bit/Blowfish 448 Bit, Mars 1248 Bit and RC6 2048 Bit selfextracting file. The SFX-Header is 41kb-49kb great. This SFX cipher checks whether the decrypting password is correct with a highly secure method, never compromising the key: while a 64 byte random number is created and also encrypted. While decrypting these two numbers are compared to test for the correctness of the password. Very simple, yet as safe as the algorithm itself. The license covers Multicrypt too. One license for two programs.
Created: 28/03/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
2PNG is a graphics converter allowing you to convert images to png format from 50+ image file types including conversions from jpeg to png, from gif to png, from tiff to png and so on. (See the full list of supported formats here.) The program has no windows interface and is fully optimized for working in background mode
Created: 28/03/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
2JPEG is a graphics converter allowing you to convert images to jpeg format from 50+ image file types including conversions from bitmap to jpeg, from gif to jpeg, from tiff to jpeg and so on. The program has no windows interface and is fully optimized for working in background mode.
Created: 28/03/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
WinHki is an archiving tool that understands the usual gamut of formats - compresses 9, decompresses 12, and one of this is its own proprietary HKI format.
Created: 27/03/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
The OutlookZIP it's an Add-On for Microsoft® Outlook. It makes easy for you to compress the files that you attach to Microsoft® Outlook e-mail messages. OutlookZIP adds three buttons to Outlook toolbar making the usage simple easy. OutlookZIP works only with Outlook 2000, Outlook XP (2002), and Outlook 2003. It does not work with Outlook Express.
Created: 20/03/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
ZipScan performs a fast file search that looks inside Zip, CAB, RAR, JAR, and ACE archive files, including self-extracting archives. The search can also check a file's size, look for a text string, and search a file's version resource table.
Created: 07/03/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
The home page for WinZip Computing, makers of WinZip. WinZip is a very popular Win32 Zip program. This page has links to an evaluation version of the program available for download, plus an FAQ, and other online support.
WinZip 9.0 shipped in February, 2004. Highlights include AES encryption and 64-bit Zip format support.
Created: 01/03/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
JPEG Imager is an interactive image compressor. It provides real-time preview of compressed image and handy means to compare it with original one. You can fiddle with various compression parameters and observe the effect of changes straight away. You also can specify a desired file size and let the program select the proper values automatically. It is perfect for "Quality vs. File Size" optimization.
Created: 01/03/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
This tool creates SFXs for your archives, and currently has both 16- and 32-bit extractor modules. Includes advanced features such as SFX files that span multiple disks. Commercial Windows software.
Version 3.0 is shipping as of February, 2003.
Created: 22/02/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
JPEG200 products provided by RomSoft. Here you find a C++ DLL implementation of JPEG2000 Part 1 standard (ISO/IEC 15444-1) and a Photoshop plugin for JPEG2000 and J2K files
Reader Petrut D. had this to say:
One of the fastest JPEG2000 codecs out there. The Intel IPP library helped a lot with performance. I also tried the Photoshop plug-in, and managed to open all the test files from http://www.crc.ricoh.com/~gormish/jpeg2000conformance/J2KP4files/ part 0 and part 1. The plug-in handled JP2 and J2K images from 1 bit to 16 bit signed/unsigned flowlessly. Highly recomend the C++ DLL and the Photoshop plugin.
GIF Construction Set Pro represents the state of the art in GIF animation software. It will assemble your original animations effortlessly through its Animation Wizard, squeeze them down to as close to nothing as possible with its Supercompressor; create eyecatching banners and animated transitions; manage your GIF files; add transparency to existing graphics and a lot more.
Version 2.0.44 is shipping as of February, 2004.
Created: 08/02/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
With Archive & Restore, you can save, stow away and restore files easily. Stowing away files will recover space on your hard disk, increase clarity and reduce administration efforts. Saving versions of your files lets you return to a previous state, for example, while developing a project.
Created: 26/01/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
This seems to be the official home page for RAR and WinRAR. RAR is a high performace archiver that is loved by many.
WinRAR 3.80 is out 30 September 2008
Created: 25/01/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
The IBM Toolkit for MPEG-4 consists of a set of JavaTM classes and APIs with five sample applications: three cross-platform playback applications and two tools for generating MPEG-4 content for use with MPEG-4-compliant devices. These applications are as follows:
AVgen: a simple, easy-to-use GUI tool for creating audio/video-only content for ISMA- or 3GPP-compliant devices
XMTBatch: a tool for creating rich MPEG-4 content beyond simple audio and video
M4Play: an MPEG-4 client playback application
M4Applet for ISMA: a Java player applet for ISMA-compliant content
M4Applet for HTTP: a Java applet for MPEG-4 content played back over HTTP.
This commercial product will zip up entire web sites and download them to your PC. You can then view them off line, at your leisure.
Created: 11/01/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
JPGAvi is used to create a video file, with an optional sound track, from either a series or a single bitmap file.
Shareware version 1.05.1.4 was shipping in January, 2004.
Created: 11/01/2004
by Mark NelsonMore...
Stuffit is the archiver of choice for those on the Apple platforms. Stuffit has been running on MacOS and OS/X for years, and over time added support for Windows, Linux, and Solaris. Stuffit comes in standard and deluxe versions, with a trial download available for the standard edition.
Version 8.0.2 shipped in December, 2003
Created: 21/12/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This page has the official releases of ARJ, UNARJ, JAR, and so on. This includes the free source to UNARJ and the ARJ32 command line archiver.
ARJ32 version 3.11 was shipping as of 12/2003.
ARJ version 2.82 was shipping as of 12/2003.
Created: 15/12/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
The LuraDocument.jpm PdfCompressor is a Windows application that can be used to automatically (Server version) or manually convert scanned documents to higly compressed PDF files. The supported input formats are TIFF, JPEG, BMP and PNM.
Created: 14/12/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Another backup program that is based around the Zip standard. Supports deflate64, spanning, and other advanced Zip features. This is Win32 shareware.
Version 2.5.4.53 shipped in December, 2003.
Created: 13/12/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This is a compiler for web pages, that uses various techniques to squeeze the fat out of your web pages. This includes things a simple as white-space reduction and as complex as JavaScript compression.
Ron M. had this to say: This is a great program, very highly recommended for Web developers. It lets you write your code full of comments and extra space for readability, and then strips it all out automatically for the live site. My pages have been noticeably faster & very hard to decipher the code on the other end. It's been reliable and easy to get used to.
Created: 07/12/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
FlyZip is a compressor designed to help you save space on your Palm O/S device, including Palm-based phones.
FlyZip XR 3.02 shipped in December, 2003.
Created: 06/12/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This commercial product takes care of managing your attachments. It appears to do
this transparently, so you don't even have to think about zipping up a big
attachment before sending.
Created: 05/12/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
A server and download accelerator for your Microsoft web server. The site says that TurboIIS is an advanced component for Microsoft Internet Information Servers, designed specifically with the aim of lowering band consumption, accelerating download times of static and dynamic content, and preventing redundant access to database resources. 30 day trial download available!
Reader Alfred S. had this to say: Very impressive performance compared to other similar products.
Version 4.0 is shipping as of December, 2003.
Created: 02/12/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This program is designed to help you squeeze the maximium amount of space out of GIF files while keeping the image quality at an acceptable level. Commercial code, but a free download is available.
Version 4.0 is shipping as of December, 2003.
Created: 02/12/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
PentaZip has a very nice feature set, supports advanced encryption, large archives, Windows shell integration, and all the other good stuff you've come to expect. Also supports a wide variety of languages.
Release 6.0.1.190 shipped in November, 2003
Created: 26/11/2003
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This product from Teranex removes DCT blocking artifacts from MPEG streams. It also features a few other neat details such as adding the "film look" to digital video.
Created: 17/11/2003
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This app from AbyssMedia is advertised as being able to turn your computer into complete audio recording studio. That means you have the ability to record from external inputs directly to MP3, OGG, WMA, or WAV format. Includes niceties such as MP3 and OGG tag editors, Voice Activated recording, skin support, and more.
Version 6.05 is shipping in November, 2003.
Created: 15/11/2003
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Transform is a BWT compressor written by Michael Bone. It supports a number of very interesting features, such as automatic Base 64 representation and image output. Shareware.
Version 1.02 shipped in October, 2003.
Created: 08/11/2003
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ReaCompressor is an image compression tool that is designed to assist you in preparing images for the web, emailing, etc. It lets you choose from various formats: JPEG, PNG, GIF, and TIFF, and shows you the results of the compression on screen.
Version 1.8 shipped in October, 2003, and added support for JPG region specific compression and over 340 input formats.
Created: 02/11/2003
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This program is designed to optimize your HTML source files by removing unnecessary characters, duplicated tags, and so on. Yes, this counts as Data Compression! Note that this link points to the Windows version of the program, but there are also two different Mac versions which you can easily find.
Version 7.82 was shipping in october of 2003.
Created: 28/10/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This Zip file manager seems to be making its claim to commercial success on two factors. First, it's 10 bucks cheaper than the big two, PKZip and WinZip. Second, it automatically fixes corrupt archives. (Although I'd love to see a discussion of just how well it does this.)
Created: 20/10/2003
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This product converts your photos to JPEG-2000 format to speed up the process of sending them by mail. And how do your friends view these photos when they get them? Well, it appears that AMC will be happy to give them a free JPEG 2000 viewer.
Created: 04/10/2003
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This Win32 archiver is free if all you ever do is unzip files. Creating Zip files is going to require registration and you coughing up a few bucks.
Created: 03/10/2003
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ExpressZIP features all of the powerful ZIP tools you'll ever need in an easy to use and attractive interface and comes complete with built-in Wizards to walk you through creating ZIP and EXE (self extracting) archives.
Version 4.0 shipped in September, 2003.
Created: 18/09/2003
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This archiver is built specifically for support of image archiving. Supports popular formats such as JPG and BMP.
Created: 15/09/2003
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This is a Win32 program that manages SoundFont files. These files are the ones used by Creative Labs to program their Midi cards. I think.
Created: 15/08/2003
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MediaZip is a Windows program that performs lossless compression/decompression and manages archives of media files (Sound and Picture). Welcome to the MediaZip home page.
Created: 15/08/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Another Win32 archiving program, supporting the Zip format and scads of others, as well as providing SFX, encryption, a file splitter, and best of all, a free world clock!
Created: 04/08/2003
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ZipSplitter is a Win32 program that does two things for
you. First, it zips up a single file. Second, it will split
that zip file into several pieces of a size of your
choosing. When it does this, the last chunk is an EXE
file that knows how to recombine all the files into one.
Created: 01/08/2003
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This Win32 program will convert your AVI files to various MPEG file types. There is a free version which limits conversions to MPEG-1. The commercial version supports MPEG-2 and various extensions.
Created: 31/07/2003
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Yet another Win32 archiver. Distinguishing features are: support for over 125 archive types, benchmarks that show it beating 7-Zip, WinRar, and WinAce for compression ratios.
Created: 30/07/2003
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This commercial Win32 program is designed to take a folder and turn it into self-extracting archives in a proprietary format. Commercial, no free trial, money back guarantee.
Created: 29/07/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This product performs a huge number of conversions among different media types. Want to convert your huge collection of MP3 files to WMA? No problem. MPEG-2 to AVI? No problem. MediaConvert even handles some unusal conversions, such as video to animated GIF. And naturally, a huge number of conversions between various image formats, including GIF, JPG, PNG, and a host of additional types.
Release 2.3 shipped in Julyy, 2003.
Created: 15/07/2003
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The Video Compression Manager is an add-on from Microsoft that will allow older apps that use AVI containers to use WMA 9 codecs.
Created: 08/07/2003
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This tool is touted as being able to repair corrupt CAB files. It scans the file and recovers as much data as possible.
Version 1.1 is shipping as of November, 2003.
Reader Antonio P. says: Relatively useful but very expensive for infrequent use.
Created: 07/07/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
A media player that comes in a free and pay version. Although it's labeled as a media player, it looks to me as though this is primarily inteded to be used as a DVD player.
Created: 04/07/2003
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CiderPress is a Win32 programmer that is designed to support Apple II archiving formats. Full support for ShrinkIt (NuFX) archives, plus a bunch of features that provide glue functoins for dealing with AppleII stuff on modern Windows machines.
Created: 28/06/2003
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DivXNetworks offers this product which lets you create DivX streams from video in quite a few other sources. They've included an MPEG-2 decoder, so you are able to convert DVD content to the new format and save some serious space.
Created: 23/06/2003
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The folks at Softword Technology have this to say about their product: There are many unzipping software tools to unzip ZIP files, but the easiest and friendliest of them all is The Unzip Wizard! It appears that this product is aimed at providing the core functionality needed by novice users. Shareware.
Version 3.1.0 is shipping as of June, 2003.
Created: 21/06/2003
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This is a Russian language web site, so I'll have to apologize in advance for any mistakes. As far as I can tell, this is a PPM-based archiver. I can't tell if it's free or not, so I'm listing it as both!
Created: 21/06/2003
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Having trouble with your Windows Media Player? This program gathers up all your information and stores it in a compressed file that you can quickly mail to your tech support pal in Redmond.
Created: 12/06/2003
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Soft Defender is a good exe file compressor, which can reduce the file size of 32-bit Windows programs by as much as 50%.In addition, Soft Defender is a perfect product of software protection of applications.With Soft Defender, your application can have anti-debugging, anti-tracer, anti-disassemble, anti-dumping, anti-apihook, file integrity checking functions in seconds. It requires no source code editing or your registration algorithm changing.
Created: 12/06/2003
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This product takes your text, converts it to speech, then stores the result in one of several compressed formats, including MP3, Ogg Vorbis, and G.721.
Created: 07/06/2003
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Convert your CHM help files from Microsoft to Adobe's PDF format. This is shareware that runs on Win32 platforms.
Created: 30/05/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Advanced Zip Repair(AZR) is a powerful tool to repair corrupted Zip and self-extracting(SFX) files. It can recover your data in Zip archives as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption.
Version 1.6 is shipping in May, 2003.
Created: 25/05/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This freeware program is designed to help you reduce the size of your GIF files. There are certain optimizations that can be performed with absolutely no loss of quality, as well as some that can provide additional improvements with some loss of resolution. Best of all, Trout's GIF Optimizer is completely free.
An anonymous reader complained They call it freeware then make you pay. To be honest, I can't see any indication of this on the web site, other than the usual request for donations. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong!
Created: 17/05/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This app allows you to both record and play sounds on your Mac in various formats, including MP3 and MP4. Also includes a bulk conversion utility for changing formats, and has the ability to export to iTunes.
Created: 08/05/2003
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Microsoft supplies this free tool as a way for developers to check their files for validity before shipping. Looks like it knows how to inspect ASF, WMA, and WMV files.
Created: 04/05/2003
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Those cute people at globalscape now have a cute zip program. It's interesting because it not only handles Zip files, but also CAB files.
Version 2.1 shipped in April, 2003, andding strong encryption and command line functionality.
Created: 01/05/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This system uses data compression and other optimization techniques to speed up your dialup Internet connection. This sytem works with any ISP or provider.
Created: 01/05/2003
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This shareware Win32 program can convert video files between various formats, including MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG w/VCD extensions, and more.
Version 1.10 is shipping as of April, 2003.
Created: 29/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
An MP3 editor, lets you split and join MP3 files, as well as creating or modifying ID3 tags.
Version 2.40 shipped in April, 2003.
Created: 26/04/2003
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Your basic Windows media player. DVD Boy Player plays DVDs as well as SVCD, DivX, and MPEG-4 files.
Version 2.1 is shipping as of April, 2003.
Created: 26/04/2003
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This product compresses your web pages using the gzip format, which is readable by virtually every modern browser. Compressing the pages this way can do a lot to improve your page loading times.
Version 2.0 is shipping in April, 2003.
Created: 23/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
SlipStream Data, using our patented proprietary data compression algorithm, provides Service Providers and Corporations with solutions that reduce bandwidth and increase the speed of Internet access using dial-up and wireless connections.
Version 3.0 of SlipStream is shipping in May, 2003.
Created: 23/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
HTMLCompact is a commercial program that squeezes your HTML pages, giving you faster downloads and increased user retention. It appears that this is done using some sort of compression that is executed in JavaScript.
Version 2.0 of this product is shipping as of August, 2003.
Created: 21/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Zip Assistant is a vanilla Win32 archive program, which appears to be slanted towards the novice user who might need a bit of handholding. The web page does say that advanced users will appreciate some features as well, and the feature list does include disk spanning, SFX files, and more.
Version 4.6 is shipping as of April, 2003.
Created: 16/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
A backup program that uses the standard Zip format for compression. Yes, you can do backups with just a Zip program, but then you wouldn't get all the cool options here, including disk spanning options, a nice GUI, password options, and more. This product comes in a freeware and shareware version.
Back4Win 2.5 and Back4Win 2.7 are shipping as of April, 2003.
Created: 15/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Description from the web site: Media Wizard is a powerful, all-in-one multimedia application supporting playback of all popular formats, audio and video conversions (CD to WAV; CD to MP3; CD to WMA; CD to OGG, WAV to MP3; MP3 to WAV; WAV/MP3 to WMA; WMA to WAV/MP3; WAV/MP3 to OGG; OGG to WAV/MP3; WAV/MP3 to CD; AVI to MPG; MPG to AVI; etc.)
This is a Win32 program, and version 8.0 is shipping as of April, 2003.
Created: 14/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This is a batch image converter that lets you go back and forth between AVI and GIF. I don't know what the practical limits are on the size of animated GIF files, but I've seen some pretty cool short videos in the format. This looks to be the way to create them.
Release 1.09 shipped on July 15, 2002.
Created: 14/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Yet another conversion program: All Converter is a powerful, all-in-one, multimedia application converting the media files among the most popular media formats.With All Converter,you can convert MP3 to WAV,MP3 to WMA ,MP3 to OGG,MP3 to VQF, WAV to MP3,WAV to WMA,WAV to OGG,WAV to VQF,WMA to MP3, WMA to OGG,WMA to VQF,OGG to MP3,OGG to WAV,OGG to WMA,OGG to VQF,VQF to MP3,VQF to WAV,VQF to WMA,VQF to OGG, normalize files,and support ID3 tag v1, v2 to file name conversion and vice versa.
Created: 14/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Zipbit is yet another inexpensive Win32 archiver with support for a wide range of archive types. Creates SFX files, integrates with Windows Explorer, and has localized versions for English, German, and Russian.
Version 1.05 is shipping as of April, 2003.
Created: 14/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This appears to be a tool that is designed to aid you in the process of digitizing your LPs and cassettes to your PC. It will export to MP3 format, which explains its presence here.
Created: 14/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This program appears to be a decompressor only - it lets you look at the contents of a Zip file, but doesn't give you a way to manipulate the contents. It offers the ability to preview files from inside the Zip file, and has a mysterious feature that I don't understand:
ZipForward™ can burn your package to an Application (.EXE) format. This means that anyone with a Windows computer can run and extract your package, just by double-clicking the icon. From then on they can use the package you gave them to send to their friends, and their friends, and so on.
ZipForward 1.1 is shipping as of April, 2003.
Created: 14/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Creating Audio and Video content with Windows Media 9 is made possible by the authoring tools listed on this page. At the time this is entered, the list of tools includes:
WMA MP3 Recorder turns your computer into complete audio recording studio. You can record sound from any internal or external source into WMA/MP3 format sound file directly without use additional disk space.
Version 5.60 is shipping as of April, 2003
Created: 08/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Advanced RealMedia Repair is a package that will help you repair your broken RealMedia files. Supports both video and audio files.
Created: 07/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This commercial program is used to join multiple video files into a single file. Supported video formats include MPEG, RM, and Windows Media.
Version 5.01 shipped in March, 2003.
Created: 07/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This is another Swiss-Army Knife converter, letting you move back and forth between AVI, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DivX, and SVCD formats.
Version 2.5 is shipping as of April, 2003.
Created: 07/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
SouthDowns is a set of Perl scripts for the creation of JPEG 2000 files from JPEG 2000 codestreams. If you're interested in the format used by the standard, this might be an easy way to experiment with it. The sample program appears to insert some metadata into the image file.
Warning: this release has no release information and no licensing information!
Created: 05/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
A GIF optimizer seeks to reduce the size of your GIF files, usually without compromising image quality. Not enough detail on this site to pass judgment, but good GIF optimizers will also let you reduce the number of colors in the palette dynamically, so you can see the effect.
Real GIF Optimizer 3.05 shipped in February of 2003. I wish I could tell you what new features are in this release, but RealMultiMedia Development is one of those companies that doesn't bother to post release notes on their web site!
Created: 03/04/2003
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A backup program that uses the standard Zip format. Supports complete system restore for Windows ME and 9x. Version 3 will have built in CD and DVD burning support, eliminating the need for an external burner program.
Version 2.34 is shipping as of March, 2003.
Created: 03/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This nifty program performs batch conversions of programs from a wide variety of types, including JPEG, BMP, TIF, PNG, and the usual other suspects. Lots of other features are added to the mix, including such goodies as watermark insertion, cropping, sharpening, blurring, etc.
Version 3.0 shipped in April, 2003.
Created: 01/04/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
PipeBoost offers HTTP Compression software that comes with a big list of customers and testimonials. You can download a 30 day trial copy, so you have nothing to lose!
Created: 27/03/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
The press release says: Ikano and SlipStream launched the BrowseBlast Internet service for U.S. consumers. SlipStream's Web Accelerator is supposed to increase connection speed significantly for dial-up and wireless connections. The software compresses Web content once it leaves the server, increasing browsing speeds to five times the traditional dial-up or wireless speed.
Created: 27/03/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
PhotoNav is a commercial optimized mega-image navigator system based on JPEG-2000. An alpha version of the PhotoNav client is now available for Palm handhelds. This software lets you browse JPEG-2000 images on your PDA.
Created: 20/03/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
MMPlayer is a Mobile Media Player for the Palm OS. It supports a wide variety of audio formats, including Windows Media, MP3, Ogg and WAV. Video isn't supported in the current release, but is anticipated as part of MMPlayer 2.0.
Created: 19/03/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Waver is a program that can convert back and forth between MP3 and WAV formats, using the Blade and LAME MP3 codecs. This product's claim to fame is its ability to soak up all the cycles on more than one CPU simultaneously. So if you're lucky enough to have a multi-CPU MOBO, you can go to town with this commercial product. You get a 30-day free trial to decide if it's worth the price.
Created: 13/03/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Ace Media Player supports an impressive list of media types, including Real, MPEG, DivX, QuickTime, VCD, WMF, and of course, MP3. This is a commercial product, but you can get a 30 day eval copy.
Version 2.2 of Ace Media Player shipped in March of 2003.
Created: 11/03/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Another company determined to swim upstream with a commercial media player. Although in this case, jetAudio Basic is free, jetAudio Plus is the the commercial product. You'll pay for the upgrade if you decide you need support for creating MP3 and MP3Pro files, broadcasting MP3 files, and converting files to MP3 or MP3Pro.
jetAudio has a nice looking UI with some alternative skins. Version 5.01 is shipping as of March, 2003.
Created: 11/03/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Power WMA Recorder is a program that can create WMA files from any available sound source directly without using any additional disk space. In addition to supporting Microsoft's WMA format (including the variable bit rate option), Power WMA Recorder can encode directly to MP3 format.
Version 1.34 is shipping in March, 2003.
Created: 08/03/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Oleg Z. has created this program to to split, encrypt with your own unique key, compress and restore to original state large files of any type. The author says the program has an intuitive GUI, and works on most Win32 platforms.
Version 1.0.0.1 shipped on March 6, 2003.
Created: 08/03/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
ezConverter is a program that is designed to make it easy to convert your audio files between various formats. Converts between WMA, MP3, MPEG, and many more formats. ezConverter also takes input directly from your sound card, allowing you to record from analog inputs or from the output of other programs. The publisher advertises it as fast and easy. You can download a trial version from the web site, but registration is going to set you back roughly $US 25.
Version 1.1 was shipping as of March, 2003.
Created: 06/03/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This Win32 program is designed to work directly with your sound card, allowing you to record audio from virtually any source and any program. It makes it into DataCompression.info because it will encode directly to MP3 format.
Version 1.05 is shipping as of March, 2003.
Created: 05/03/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This product is advertised as a revolutionary compression package from QuickCAT Technologies. It comes in two versions: a Pro package that compresses documents and images, and a Basic version that compresses only images.
Created: 28/02/2003
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This product bills itself as the "Ultimate Multilingual User Friendly" compression tool. The usual Zip features plus support for six different languages. Fifteen day free trial download.
Reader Donald J. says Excellent zip utility and definitely the easiest I have ever used.
Created: 22/02/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Compressia is a BWT-based archive utility with particularly high compression ratios. On Calgary, Canterbury, ACT-Text and ACT-Exe it surpasses all other BWT utilities. On Canterbury corpus it also surpasses all PPM utilities. Beta version 1.0 is available on the web site as of February, 2003.
DataCompression.info reader Juan L. said It is by far the best I've tried.
Created: 17/02/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
An archiver that supports 31 formats. ArchiveXP uses the 7-Zip compression format to handily beat Zip-based compressors when it comes to archive size.
SP83 of ArchiveXP 2003 was released in January of 2003.
Created: 17/02/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
PKWare's page for PKZip. Currently offering four flavors of PKZip for Windows, and a big mess of versions for UNIX.
Version 6.0 of PKZip appears of have shipped in January of 2003.
Created: 17/02/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
Vprove is a PC-based software package that analyzes video streams. It is intended as a way for developers to optimize their compressors, doing such things as analysis of motion estimation and image clarity. The product works with H.261, H.263, and MPEG-4 streams. This is a sophisticated product with many interesting features, if you are a content creator or develop content creation tools, you need to check it out.
Created: 17/02/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This site describes itself as The ultimate resource for enhancing your Media Player 9 Series for Windows. By this they mean plugins, themes, skins, visualizations, etc.
Created: 25/01/2003
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A small archiving program using LZH. Fold is the main program, Unfold is a standalone extractor, and Foltoexe creates self extracting archives.
Created: 19/01/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
The XTREAM Data Management System (XMS) is a robust, scalable data compression system that offers increased compression ratios and/or reduced compression processing time for efficient data management.
Note: I have to confess that after looking at this web page, I have absolutely no idea what this product does, how one would use it, or what the potential market is.
Created: 19/01/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
V.E.C.T.A.R. (Video Enhanced Compression for Transmission and Recording) is a high performance video and stereo audio encoder that delivers multimedia content of unprecedented quality across standard broadband and unsurpassed quality across restricted bandwidth. This PCI encoder encodes full motion analog video and stereo audio, and multiplexes it to the system stream to ensure 100% synchronized delivery. Cyber Operations' patent pending MPEG-X is the groundbreaking technology that makes V.E.C.T.A.R. unique. MPEG-X incorporates MPEG-1, MPEG-2, and MPEG-4 compatibility, and allows V.E.C.T.A.R. to provide higher quality compressed video than any other available technology.
Created: 19/01/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
This page has links to download all the various components of Windows Media 9, including the media player, codecs, encoders, embedded toolkits, and more.
Created: 19/01/2003
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These guys describe their product as Virtual Broadband, implying that it speeds up your dialup connection to the point that you can't believe it's not broadband! It appears that the product routes requests for web pages through their network, sending you to pages that have been compressed using their proprietary techniques.
User Paul was quite pleased with the service, saying All in all I was suitably impressd especially when I tried in on my lap top with my GSM connection. Cute to see everything speed up the way it did.
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Created: 19/01/2003
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httpZip uses standard algorithms to compress web pages streaming out of your IIS server. This commercial software adds support, installation programs, and administration to provide you with something a cut above some of the free alternatives. The software compresses static and dynamic Web content using encoding algorithms supported by all modern browsers (HTTP 1.1 compliant).
Version 3.5 is shipping as of Sept. 2005.
Created: 19/01/2003
by Mark NelsonMore...
VisioWave is offering simple, modular, integrated and open-ended high-quality and reliable hardware and software solutions for compression, processing and real-time transmission of very high quality video over any network (IP, ATM, ADSL, cable, wireless, ...).
Created: 23/12/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
A full-featured release of a Win32 Zip program. Version 3.0 was released in October, 2002. Trial version available.
Created: 30/10/2002
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ArchiveExpert supports the standard Zip format, as well as CAB, LHA, LZH, plus extraction support for ARJ, ARC, PAK, RAR, as well as other formats. The 2.02 release shipped in August of 2002.
Created: 30/10/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
WebWrap is a small 3-in-1 utility program to compress and/or code your HTML web files. It uses either a modified LZSS algorithm or the URL encryption procedure, and can reduce the size of your files by more than 50%. It also renders the source of any HTML pages you have created, your design features and your scripts for example, inaccessible to easy viewing or simple clip and paste procedures. The "WebWrapped" files you create are self-extracting and do not require any third-party software. In addition to compressing and coding your HTML files, you also have the opportunity to add automatically a password protection script.
Created: 21/10/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
This product is designed to optimize, compress, and encrypt your HTML pages, which makes them load more quickly and protects them from casual copying.
Created: 12/10/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
Full-featured batch image processing and conversion software. Over 70 image formats are supported, and the software provides an extensive array of image enhancement, editing, and processing operations. All processing and conversion operations have numerous options that can be optionally set for maximum control. The entire application is highly customizable. AutoImager also offers complete command-line support. With over 130 configurable command-line choices, it's easy to create batch files to perform image processing tasks which may need to be done routinely. A list of available features far too long to list here.
Created: 05/10/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
This product is used to protect the source of your HTML pages, which it does using "three layers of encryption." I don't know how that works, but they do advertise that LZW compression is an optional part of the process, so they earn a spot in DataCompression.info.
Created: 28/09/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
Ultra GIF Optimizer is a powerful tool for optimizing GIF images. It can makes your web page load faster,save your server bandwidth charges and disk space! This is a commercial product, but it looks like you can download it and have a trial session.
Created: 22/09/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
A tool to help you reduce the size of your image files with little or no reduction in image quality. Demo version available, fully functional but stamps output files with a "Demo" label.
Created: 15/09/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
This product is used to convert audio files from one format to another. The programs know how to do various conversions between WMA, MP3, and Ogg Vorbis. It's also smart enough to do CD ripping. This appears to be shareware.
Created: 15/09/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
Streambox ACTION is an easy to use video encoding application for serious amateurs and webmasters. ACTION goes beyond simple "file save" routines in video editors, allowing you to interactively optimize your video for specific streaming data rates while preserving video quality. ACTION is specifically designed to produce output optimized for the best progressive download/streaming video player on the market, Apple QuickTime. Convert any DV, AVI. or MOV file into a high quality .MOV file for playing on any QuickTime Player, available for free from Apple.
Reader John G. says Good video codec.
Created: 15/09/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
Microsoft's web page for all things releated to the new Windows Media Player and more. At this time you can download the beta version of the new player, get information, and sample various media.
Reader Serg N. commented: Very good quality, support for [very] low bitrates, lossless mode. It's not open source, but it's free!
Created: 15/09/2002
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CHAOS Self-Extractor is a utility program that creates self-extracting ZIP files for Windows. CHAOS supports a form of encryption that it claims is much stronger than standard Zip encryption.
Created: 09/09/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
Squeez is a fast file compression application, supporting many different archive formats. It reads and writes files in the formats ACE, ARJ, BZIP, CAB, GZIP, LZH, RAR, SQX, TAR, UUE and ZIP without any additional software. Unlike many other archivers, Squeez can read and write ZIP files (so called Zip64 archives) that have no limits regarding their maximum size or the maximum number of files within. The new SQX archive format supported by Squeez is an open archive format without any limits regarding the maximum archive size or the maximum number of files within. Special compression algorithms for executables (EXE, DLL) and multimedia files as well as a fast compressor for WAV files can usually compress content 8 to 30 percent better than ZIP or ARJ files.
Created: 03/09/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
ZipMagic gives you transparent access to Zip files via the technology from the ZipFolders product. Treat archive files as if they were ordinary folders. ZipMagic of course contains a number of other nice features.
Created: 20/08/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
A search program for Win32 computers. ZipSearch knows how to look through Zip files and compressed EXEs to find search strings.
Version 1.07 shipping in December, 2002.
Created: 08/08/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
This program lets you compress AutoCad DWG files into Zip archives for distribution.
Version 2.0 is shipping as of May, 2003.
Created: 08/08/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
ChilkatZip Self-Extractor is a utility program that creates self-extracting ZIP files for Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP. They advertise a few interesting features, including 256-bit encryption, streaming technology, and progress indicators.
Created: 08/08/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
Easily create sharp-looking, feature-rich Self-Extracting (.EXE) Zip files with this handy desktop application. Lets you quickly select a group of files to zip up and put into a .EXE file. Even supports being able to split the .EXEs across multiple floppy disks.
Created: 31/07/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
The folks at Dark Horse Industries like Robert Jung's JAR compressor. So much so that they created a graphical front end for it. Get it here.
Created: 20/07/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
Lots of folks (including me) perform system backups into Zip archives. Over the years I became leery of proprietary formats used by various manufacturers of tape drives, removable disks, etc. Zip files give me a much better feeling, and make it a lot easier to browse through my backups. Martin Aignesberger must feel the same way, because he has created a product that performs daily backups into Zip files. This is a commercial product, but he does offer a 30 day free evaluation.
Created: 09/07/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
This conversion tool will convert between several audio formats, including MP3, WMA, WAV, OGG, APE, MPC, CUE, AAC, MP4, M4A, TTA, AC3, FLAC, OptimFROG, Speex, WavPack, ALAC. Does resampling. Supports ID3V1 and V2, plus other goodies.
Created: 09/07/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
ZipRecovery purports to be able to repair your corrupted Zip files. They don't talk too much about the details on the site, but they offer a demo program, so you can get an evaluation without actually buying a copy.
Version 1.5 is shipping as of October, 2003.
Created: 02/07/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
This company labels itself as "The world leader in end-to-end MPEG-4 Solutions." Looks like they sell a suite of authoring and encoding tools, and perhaps some server software. Follow the link to "About MPEG-4" and you'll get a little bit of text plus some more links.
Created: 04/06/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
Another archiver, this one supports ZIP, ACE, RAR, TAR, and ZOO formats. This appears to be a Korean product - the web page is bilingual.
Created: 23/05/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
This company has a roster of compression products, including an MPEG-2 Player, an MPEG-2 DirectShow Filter, and a Wavelet Image Compressor.
DataCompression.info user Kuka had this to say: Excellent mpeg player, and a lot of very useful mpeg tools.
Created: 08/05/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
An archive manager that has some built in functionality that helps you with your backup requirements. Automatic archiving in the trusty Zip format.
Created: 04/04/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
Rarissimo is a file utility to automatically compress and/or uncompress files, companion for the award winning compression program WinRAR. Distinguishable from other compression solutions by its ability to fully preserve NTFS alternate streams. This feature provides automatic compression/uncompression for Macintosh files stored on NT volumes preserving their filenames and peculiar structures - it means for example that you can use Rarissimo to send and receive Macintosh files using any standard FTP process (and not only Mac-based programs).
DataCompression.info user Marie M. said: This utility is very specialized so not easy to find. It is a great help to transfer Mac files without a special Mac ftp utility.
Created: 04/04/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
WinAce released a new version of their archiving program at the end of 2000, promising exciting new features, such as support for Gzipped files, proprietary EXE, sound, and picture algorithms, and the usual list of extras.
DCL user comment: I have never seen such a lovely archiving program. The best I have used so far. Winzip can not touch this one!
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Created: 11/02/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
C-Cube makes hardware and software encoder and decoders for MPEG video and audio.
C-Cube was engulfed by LSI Logic in 2001, you can now find all of their products here, probably under Professional Codecs and Consumer Products.
Created: 03/02/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
Fed up with limited compression performance of Stacker, PKZIP, UC2, ZOO, ARJ and LHA? CRUSH will usually give 5%-50% improved compression over any other DOS compression tool, and yet allows the user to continue using the archiver already in use. CRUSH is fast and the ideal choice for users keen to save disk space. I can't help but note that the last update of CRUSH was in 1995!
Created: 02/01/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
Another archiver that supports the zip format? Yep, that's what it is.Of course, BraZip does support TAR, RAR, GZ, LHA, and a host of other formats. Cruise around the web site a bit and you'll find the same information in Portuguese.
Created: 01/01/2002
by Mark NelsonMore...
RICAZip.com has proprietary lossless image compression technology called RICA (Reversible Image Compression Algorithm). RICA retains original file formats (e.g. TIFF, DICOM, BMP, TGA, PGM etc.). RICACom says We have yet to find any method that provides better compression ratios (for truly lossless), including wavelet. On a PII 450MHz RICA compresses @ 6MB per second and decompresses at 12MB per second. Available as a standalone image archive app, Adobe Photoshop Plugin, Browser Plugin, and RICA SDK.
DCL reader Karen H. says: Evaluation of this product demonstates excellent compression ratios and it is also very fast compared to other methods I have used.
Created: 15/12/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
ZFilter is the ZIP indexing filter for SharePoint, Internet Information Server, Site Server and Microsoft Exchange server. ZFilter is a library that handles .zip archives and returns indexable text and value properties in a similar way to the MS Office filter and the PDF filter supplied by Adobe. The library handles all zip archives created with WinZip, PKWare and DynaZip, indeed any archive created using the compression format based on PKWare.
Satisfied DataCompression.info user Jim R. had this to say:I've been searching high and low for exactly this thing for years, and now I've found it, and it works.
Created: 08/12/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
Advanced Zip Repairer(AZR) is a powerful tool to repair corrupted Zip files and Self Extracting files(SFX). It can recover your data in zip archives as much as possible, so to minimize the loss in file corruption. Currently AZR can fix all sub-types of zip files and all kinds of self-extracting files, also it will provide a tiny exe stub when repairing SFX files. Moreover, it has integrated with windows shell and supported drag & drop operations, which will make you repair files easily and quickly.
Created: 04/12/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
ACDZip is a zipping and unzipping program that gives you the power to compress image, audio, video and document files. It includes fast image previews and is ideal for opening zip files, backing up files, saving hard disk space, preparing files for distribution and protecting them with encryption and passwords.
Created: 28/11/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
Philips MP4Net web site is here to tell you abou the WebCine line of products, which includes an MPEG-4 Encoder, Server, and Player. It looks like the player is yours for the asking. Other links here explain MPEG-4, as well as offering you careers with Philips.
Created: 15/11/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
Despite the name, this is simply an archiving program that supports the usual gamut of compression formats, including Zip, RAR, ACE, etc.
Version 3.00 seems to be shipping in December, 2002.
Created: 28/10/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
Advertised as The world's most versatile and powerful archive utility! Available as shareware or free w/ads. Supports various formats, does conversions, works with the Windows shell.
Created: 21/10/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
ArjFolder is a utility that makes it easy to read or write ARJ and ZIP files, and to read a slew of other file types. Sit can be viewed in French or English.
Created: 03/09/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
From the site: daxaif is a no-loss audio compression program which performs live capture or converts audio files, movie sound tracks, or audio CD tracks into a compressed ".dax" file format. This format allows fast locating and selection of audio passages through the use of a clickable compression-factor map. The selections can be played or saved in uncompressed AIFF or further compressed to AIFC format using any QuickTime-supported compresser. .
Created: 26/08/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
Jeff Gilchrist maintains the well known Archive Comparison Test site, which pits all the compressors of the world against one another. This page on that site has links to the all those archivers. Lots of links.
Created: 25/08/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
Jeff Gilchrist maintains the well known Archive Comparison Test site, which pits all the compressors of the world against one another. This page on that site has links to the all those archivers. Lots of links.
Created: 25/08/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
Image Power makes this product which compresses documents using JBIG, GIF, and JPEG2000 encoders. This product is supposed to help you with web publishing, archiving, and image management.
Created: 23/08/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
ZipIt is a Macintosh program that zips and unzips archives in a format fully compatible with PKZip for the IBM and zip implementations on other systems.
Created: 25/07/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
Shareware compressor for the Mac. Web site claims it handles universally standard archives, a bit vague for my taste.
Created: 25/07/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
SmartZip is a MacOS application designed to be the simplest and most efficient way to manage ZIP files. You can automatically compress files (or entire folders) by dragging them onto SmartZip and in the same way you can easily expand ZIP files.
Created: 25/07/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
Compact Pro is a shareware file compression and archival utility for the Mac. It compresses and stores files in "archives" which may span multiple diskettes. Compact Pro supports data encryption (US and Canadian users only) and self-extracting archives.
Created: 25/07/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
TurboZIP is an Archive, E-Mail Manager and Auto Backup tool. It opens major archive and E-mail formats. It offers the unique capabilities to internally view, print, copy, launch, and virus
scan files within ZIP and E-mails without unzipping; unique ZIP Set and Multi-threading operation for simultaneous zipping, unzipping, auto backups..
TurboZip 5.1 appears to have been released sometime around January, 2003. Unfortunately, the FileStream web site doesn't provide any sort of release history for this product, so it's impossible to determine exactly when the release shipped and what features were added in 5.1.
Created: 23/07/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
TurboZIP Express is tightly integrated with Windows Explorer so you can ZIP, UnZIP, CAB, UnCAB, plus E-mail files, all in one quick action. You can compress files to units of any size and
output to HD or FD. It lets you internally view, print or even edit files within Zip..
Created: 23/07/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
LEADTOOLS is now supporting JPEG2000 in their toolkits by means of this JPEG2000 plugin. Supports both file and stream formats, plus many additional features. Download of sample available.
Created: 05/07/2001
by Mark NelsonMore...
The DSP Group makes a codec called TrueSpeech. You can get a copy of the player for free here to check out the 8.5 KBps audio it makes possible.
Created: 24/09/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
JPEG Cruncher is a commercial app that lets you squeeze the heck out of your images while keeping them looking as nice as possible.
Created: 12/09/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
Cybermail is a product that lets you compress video files for email transmission. According to the advert, they have a revolutionary new compression engine!,
Created: 06/09/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
This company makes digital video streaming hardware and software. Although it looks like maybe they don't actually make the hardware, they help you design it.
Created: 20/08/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
MKS makes UNIX utilities available on other platforms. Naturally, this includes pack, unpack, mkszip, and so on.
Created: 20/08/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
These guys appear to be selling a conventional file compressor that works on quite a few different desktops and mainframes. The product description on the web page manages to obscure the facts with a lot of marketing-ese, so I'm a bit fuzzy on the details.
Created: 20/08/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
An audio compression format invented at NTT's Cyber Space Laboratories. Get your player and compressor right here. (English avaible by following the sharp-eyed link.)
Created: 30/07/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
UB Video says:
UB Video Inc., based in Vancouver, Canada, is a leading provider of coding and transcoding software solutions for video communications. UB Video provides software products that run on desktop PCs as well as on programmable Digital Signal Processors and Media Processors. UB Video's products include:
Encoders/Decoders
H.261 (Libraries/Source code)
H.263/H.263+ (Libraries/Source code, Encoder/Decoder DirectShow filters, Video for Windows codecs, Java decoder)
MPEG-4 (Libraries/Source code)
MPEG-2 (Libraries/Source code)
Transcoders
H.263 to H.261 and H.261 to H.263 (Libraries)
MPEG-2 to MPEG-4 (Libraries)
Free demos of the H.263+ codec (UB-Live) and MPEG-4 codec (UB-Stream) can be downloaded from the web site.
Earth Etc. makes a free wavelet based compressor that somehow ties in with their web server product. In theory they supply plugins that you can use to view the compressed images.
DCL reader JJB had this to say: Limited in size and other features in the free version as well as limited documentation in the free version, but decent examples if you can learn from those (you just can't learn what they don't show there). Very specific to Geo-Spacial images (satelite images and the like), decent compression, speed and recovery of all sizes equal to or less than original (use power of 2 sizes for best results)..
Created: 11/07/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
I don't know if Hamarsoft is still in business, but you can still get a copy of HAP here. Harald Feldmann was Hamarsoft.
Created: 04/07/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
A proprietary image compression system using wavelets by MeVis Technology. Browser plug-ins available, naturally. Links to German language version of the page.
A DCL reader had this to say: Achieves high compression and has a useful interface. I have used only the non-registered version 2.6e
very powerful and probably superior to JWizard by Pegasus.
Created: 02/07/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
This program by Synaptek Software is yet another zip program. Let me know if you find any distinguishing features of this release.
Created: 09/06/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
These folks make CinePak and CinePak Pro, which are digital compression tools based on the CinePak codec. They have applications that run on both MacOs and Windows.
Created: 08/06/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
These folks make a product called MP Studio Pro, which is a compression/decompression engine, and seems to be geared towards content producers.
Created: 08/06/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
Compression Engines, Inc. has a file format called WIF, which stands for Wavelet Image Format. They licensed it from HARC, and have created and ActiveX control, a browser plugin, a standalone program, and the requisite Photoshop plugin. Check it out.
Created: 03/06/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
This site advertises a bunch of nifty looking codecs, including TELP, JPEG, Speech, MPEG, and wavelet compressors. I can't quite determine exactly what form the products come in.
Created: 03/06/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
ASCENT SOLUTIONS Inc. PKZIP data compression software for MVS (mainframe), Windows (Netzip), VM, VSA, AS/400, UNIX, OS/2, DOS, VMS. All products are 100% cross-platform compatible.
Created: 16/05/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
ZipGenie is yet another archiver that supports a scad of formats, including zip, cab, arj, lha, lza, arc, gz, tar, zoo, gzip, rar, tgz, ace, jar, pak, and z. The author says that the download is multilingual, with help in German, English, Spanish, and French.
Created: 06/05/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
This code is reputedly good for compressing B/W images. The web site refers to it as Difference Adaptive compression. It's patented.
Created: 18/04/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
An interesting program that takes an image and squeezes it down into a Java applet. Shareware, so you can give it a spin for free.
Created: 09/04/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
ArchivePro isn't a zip program, it's a database for all the files you've stored. In the process it often compresses files for you, which is how it ended up in my database.
Created: 09/04/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
Another product from Aladdin, makers of the world-famouse Stuffit program for the Mac. DropStuff comes in versions for the Mac and Windows, and will store archives in either Zip or Sit formats.
Created: 04/04/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
A commercial program that supports both the Stuffit and Zip formats. DropZip is available for both Mac and Windows platforms.
Created: 09/03/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
Another program for compression executables. This is a Win32 preprocessor that claims to reduce EXE size as much as 70%.
Created: 09/03/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
Solution-Soft is the provider of software for online archiving and for bandwidth management in the Internet infrastructure and the enterprise. Solution-Soft's products enable data files to be archived online and transferred faster over networks through a revolutionary technology providing transparent compression and decompression.
Created: 17/02/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
The family of Netzip archiving programs seem to have a good set of features and have received good reviews when compared to WinZip and PKZip for Windows. NetZip 7.5 adds some flashy new features, including skins!
Created: 11/02/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
A data compression utility. The internal documentation states that this program can create archives using 7 bit ASCII only for maximum portability.
Created: 01/01/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
The documentation for this program is in an unknown language. It appears to be an archiver that includes a developers kit.
Created: 01/01/2000
by Mark NelsonMore...
MegaSafe is advertised as being "one finger archive control of your critical data." I'm not sure what that means, and there is not much more description than that on the web site.
Created: 28/12/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
LizardTech has developed a portable image format called MrSID that is used by people who have huge files and want to render them in a nearly lossless manner. I think the idea is to render it on a given output device using just as many pixels as is absolutely necessary. Looks like they are pitching this stuff to the mapping and medical industries.
Created: 25/12/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
These folks deliver a tool called FLAM which uses a patented data compression algorithm to do something. The site has English and German language versions, but doesn't seem to have any detailed information on FLAM.
Created: 13/12/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Archiving program that advertises support for DOS, Windows, NT, OS/2, QNX, and UNIX. This distribution has no docs, but the ACT page indicates that this is shareware, so until further notice I'll label it as such.
Created: 28/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Includes editing software, file formats and converters, codecs, and links. This page is at the University of Hannover, Germany. While there appears to be a wealth of software on this site, it would appear that you need special privileges to get access to ti.
Created: 26/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
This site has links to Telvox's CODEC package, which appears to ship in both free and commercial versions. CODEC uses proprietary lossless compression, and is ported to a wide variety of platforms. Telvox is located in Bologna, Italy, and has duplicate web pages in English and Italian.
Created: 26/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
A Netscape plug-in that lets you display MPEG files online. Avoid the hassle of requiring a complete download before you can start viewing the file.
Created: 21/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Optibase claims to be a leading supplier of MPEG content creation tools. Their Web site lists products such as MPEG ComMotion Pro and the The MPEG ComMotion UDP.
Created: 21/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
mtv is an MPEG TV Player that runs under Linux and UNIX. Besides watching MPEG files from the Interneti, mtv also lets you play Video DVDs. Freeware and commercial versions are available.
Created: 21/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
A mirror site for the big compression software site. See 0index.txt for a list of what's here, an unbelievably large treasure trove.
Created: 13/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
JAM is a transparent hard disk compressor, which enlarges your disk space. With the JAM you will forget about annoying messages like 'Insufficient disk space...' with no need to purchase a new hard disk.
Created: 07/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
JRchive is a program for compressing and storing files in an archive. It has a "concatenated archive" option that puts the files in the archive first, then compresses it for better compression ratios.
Created: 07/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
SAR is a simple archival utility that uses the Huffman algorithms. It has been designed to utilize a single executable for all functionality and has proven to be more effective than most archival utilities on the market today. Although SAR does not have a lot of the commands other utilities have, it more than makes up for it in compression and ease of use. Future releases of SAR will continually include more functionality.
Created: 07/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
These guys apparently make a couple of variations on a product called Genuine Fractals. The product is a Photoshop plugin that appears to read fractal file formats and do some sort of scaling. If this is a grotesque misrepresentation of what the product does, feel free to email a correction.
Created: 07/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
The PIC Sound Processing System (SPS) uses the ELS arithmetic Coder from Pegasus. Here are the latest raw figures for the 4 most common sound formats. 4 formats using the full dynamic range (-32768..32767 for 16-bit and 0..255 for 8-bit).
Created: 07/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
DATA COMPRESSION PROGRAM for VM/ESA enables VM customers to automatially (sic) and transparently compress and expand CMS minidisk file data. This capability can help reduce DASD utilization, load on the I/O subsystem, and staff time spent managing minidisk space and "disk full" conditions.
During the development of PKZIP v. 2.0 for MS-DOS, PKWARE has
discovered hardware faults in newer 80386 & 80486 computers.
These faults can cause anomalies in the operation of PKWARE
software as well as other software.
Created: 04/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
ARC is used to create and maintain file archives. An archive is a group of files collected together into one file in such a way that the individual files may be recovered intact. ARC automatically compresses the files being archived so that the resulting archive takes up a minimum amount of space.
Created: 04/11/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
Aladdin makes quite a few different software products, but the one we are concerned with is Stuffit, probably the best known archiver for the Macintosh platform.
Created: 26/10/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
LIMIT is a fast and compact data compressor/archiver. The compression and decompression routines have been written entirely in 80286 assembly, so it runs faster than many other archivers. LIMIT also compresses better than other archivers; it uses a compression method based on 32K sliding window dictionary plus huffman encoding, similar to LHA/PKZIP/ARJ, but with some improvments.
Created: 18/02/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
PAK is a utility to create and maintain file archives in compressed form. There are several advantages to compressing files. On a hard disk, most files are accessed infrequently. Reducing the size of these files allows more of them to remain on the hard disk, where they are more accessible than on a floppy in a file cabinet, and
frees disk space for other use.
Created: 30/01/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
This FTP site has copies of a wide variety of archiving programs. Includes current programs such as PKZip, ARJ, and RAR, as well as historically relevant programs such as PAK and ARC. Look at 00index.txt for a directory of what's on hand.
Created: 25/01/1999
by Mark NelsonMore...
For those individuals looking for an application that deals with all aspects of JPEG imaging--The JPEG Wizard is it! The JPEG Wizard is based around the premise that altering and processing an image at the algorithmic level instead of the visual level greatly preserves the quality of an image.
Created: 27/12/1998
by Mark NelsonMore...
The HPACK Multi-System Archiver is an archiver that was written to allow the transfer of archived data to different systems. In the past archivers have traditionally been available for single systems only, for example PKZIP™ and LHARC for the IBM PC, Larc for the Amiga, StuffIt(tm) and Compactor for the Macintosh, and tar and compress for UNIX systems (while these archivers are available on other systems, their use is not widespread).
Created: 01/01/1970
by Mark NelsonMore...
Together, PKPAK and PKUNPAK handle all of your file compression needs. PKPAK is the program that compresses files. This shrinking process is often referred to as archiving or ARCing and it results in the creation of an ARCHIVE file. Terms you will see during the compressing process are Stored, Packed, Squeezed, Crunched and Squashed. PKPAK also handles all ARCHIVE file maintenance including adding and
deleting files, as well as reporting on technical information from
within the archive.
Created: 01/01/1970
by Mark NelsonMore...
Welcome to PKZIP 2.0. This release continues the high performance tradition of previous versions of PKZIP, with a host of new features. In addition to an improved reference section, this manual contains a step-by-step tutorial.By following the Installation, Tutorial and Advanced Features sections in order you will learn how to use PKZIP to your best advantage. Use the Command Reference sections in your day-to-day use of PKZIP. Convenient indices to these sections are printed on the inside of the front and back
Created: 01/01/1970
by Mark NelsonMore...
PUT is a command and/or menu driven compression and archiving program. GET is the decompression and unarchiving program that goes with it.
Created: 01/01/1970
by Mark NelsonMore...
Datacompressing archiver; optional GUI; powerful command line; up to 72% better compression; multi-volume UltraFAST self extracting archives; DOS executable compression; powerful version manager; OS/2 EA support; disk error recovery. UC2PRO.EXE is protected with USEAL.
Created: 01/01/1970
by Mark NelsonMore...
UltraCompressor II (tm) from AIP-NL (Ad Infinitum Programs) is an archiver. An archiver is a file handling and compression utility. It will make most of your files significantly smaller and it can keep related files together. When you need the files, you can decompress them with the same UC2 utility. UC2 is very easy to use, thanks to its simple user interface and has support for all archiving needs.
Created: 01/01/1970
by Mark NelsonMore...
Extend your scanner, digital camera, paint program, and internet imaging! Use PICPress to convert your image archives, clip art, Macintosh, Sun, and Silicon Graphics bitmap files. Unique features include LOSSLESS ROTATION of JPEG files which is very important to avoid loss from rotated digital camera shots. Other JPEG features include PASSWORD LOCKING and JPEG comment editing.
Created: 01/01/1970
by Mark NelsonMore...
A full package of plug-in based universal (de)compression tools. The package contains: Visual Codec Studio, The Q Utilities, WinCox, Codec Commander and Codex Plug-ins, which support multiple archive types, file splitting, etc. Shareware, trial version available.
Site appears to have been updated in the Summer of 2002.
Created: 01/01/1970
by Mark NelsonMore...
NeoLite encapsulates Windows 32-bit executable files, DLLs, and their resources resulting in protected programs with smaller executable sizes. Protect your program from hackers, decompilers and resource modifiers. Neolite typically provides a 50% space savings, sometimes over 70%.
Created: 01/01/1970
by Mark NelsonMore...
This product lets you make the smallest PDF files possible, using compression supported by Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Created: 01/01/1970
by Mark NelsonMore...
This inexpensive utility can be used to add tags to your JPEG files.
Adding comments to the files can be used by this program and others to help sort, search, or otherwise organize your image files.
Created: 01/01/1970
by Mark NelsonMore...
