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 www.compression-links.info: Find, download & compress! 
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| German language, People content, Papers content, Lossless_Audio_Coding area | Tilman Liebchen from Technical University of Berlin did a lot of research in the field of lossless audio compression. He is the author of LPAC codec and he was actively involved in the development of MPEG-4 Audio Lossless Coding (ALS) standard. There are a number of useful papers on his page, including articles on MPEG-4 ALS. Some papers are in German. Created: 11/02/2006 by Maxim Smirnov |
| Gzip area, Archiving area, Zip area, German language, CommercialLibs content |
The Archive Component is a fast and optimized toolkit for working
with archive-files, available as a .NET-class as well as a COM-object.
The main purpose of is to simplify creating archives and reading/writing
data from/to archive files as much as possible.
Fileformats: ZIP-files as well as ARJ, GZ, JAR, TAR and Z. A German version is also available, see it here. Created: 01/08/2005 by Carsten Neubauer |
| Archiving area, German language, CommercialProgs content | 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 Nelson |
| Zip area, French language, German language, NonCommercialProgs content |
Yet another free Zip program with the usual cast of features. Supports a pretty good variety of archives (including ace, arj, cab, rar), runs under Win32 only, etc. There are a number of localizations to national languages.
Filzip 3.0.4 is shipping in July, 2005. Created: 15/05/2004 by Mark Nelson |
| Zip area, portugal language, German language, NonCommercialProgs content |
A free self-extractor bundler, it can take a standard Zip file and convert it into a self-extracting EXE, or take a self-extracting EXE and turn it into a Zip file. Free for non-commercial use, now has many features to customise appearance of self-extracting archives in the 3.0 release.
Version 3.0 is shipping as of August, 2005. Created: 31/05/2004 by Mark Nelson |
| MPEG area, French language, German language, Russian language, Swedish language, NonCommercialProgs content, Italian language | The home site for the Flask MPEG conversion program. A program that can convert back and forth between MPEG-1 and MPEG-2. Change parameters such as frame rate, etc. Free! Created: 04/10/2000 by Mark Nelson |
| German language, Links content | A German language set of data compression links. A pretty good page of links, it probably doesn't matter whether you speak German or not; the references mostly point to English language resources. Created: 11/11/1999 by Mark Nelson |
| Archiving area, portugal language, German language, CommercialProgs content |
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 Nelson |
| Zip area, German language, Swedish language, NonCommercialProgs content |
There are two programs named SimplyZip. This is the free one from Germany. This program has an awesome list of supported archives formats.
Version 1.1 is shipping as of June, 2004 Created: 14/06/2004 by Mark Nelson |
| Tutorials content, ArithmeticCoding area, German language, SourceCode content, Papers content | An updated and translated version of our German paper "Proseminar Datenkompression - Arithmetische Kodierung" from 2001. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first comprehensive paper that describes the whole way from the basic principles of AC up to a simple implementation, fully documented with C++ source code. Created: 06/06/2004 by Mark Nelson |
| Audio area, German language, NonCommercialProgs content |
GermaniXEncoder is a universal Transcoder for various sound formats like MP3, MP2, Real Audio, WMA, Ogg Vorbis, ALF2CD, DSP, GSM, G.721, G.723, G.726, RAW, PCM, ADPCM, uLaw, aLaw, MPC, and Monkeys Audio. In addition, the Encoder has a transformer for some transforming features, an Audio Recorder for recording from all input sources to mp3, mp2, pcm, adpcm, wma and ogg-vorbis. You can also split large MP3 files with their CUE sheets into songs.
Version 1.80.1195 RC2 was shipping as of Februaru, 2002. Created: 22/02/2004 by Mark Nelson |
| Zip area, French language, German language, CommercialProgs content, Italian language |
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 by Mark Nelson |
| Zip area, portugal language, German language, Russian language, NonCommercialProgs content |
The software reviewer at the SlaughterHouse speculated that commercial developers of zip programs ought to just pack it in when they see how good QuickZip is. If you agree or disagree, why not post an evaluation here so we can benefit from your experience? It seems to be free, plus has support for Chinese and several European languages.
Release 3.05 is shipping as of November, 2003. Created: 16/11/2003 by Mark Nelson |
| Internet area, Zip area, German language, NonCommercialProgs content | Zipserver is a little HTTP server that serves up static documents from inside Zip files. Great way to put manuals or archived documents on line, don't you think? Created: 08/11/2003 by Mark Nelson |
| JPEG2000 area, German language, NonCommercialProgs content | A free Max OS X program that converts your images to JPEG 2000. Created: 11/08/2003 by Mark Nelson |
| SFX area, Archiving area, German language, Russian language, CommercialProgs content |
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 Nelson |
| BWT area, German language, Papers content | This is another German preprint of Jurgen Abel describing the principles of the Burrows-Wheeler Compression Algorithm. An implementation of a BWT based compressor with a compression rate of 2.25 bps on the Calgary Corpus is presented. The paper will be published in the German journal "Informatik - Forschung und Entwicklung", Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, Association for Informatics (Gesellschaft fur Informatik eV.) Created: 14/04/2003 by Mark Nelson |
| BWT area, German language, Papers content | This is a preprint of a paper by Jurgen Abel describing the functionality of a basic but quite fast Burrows-Wheeler compressor. Jurgen reports that this will be published in PIK, a German-language journal on Communications and Information Theory. Created: 21/03/2003 by Mark Nelson |
| Zip area, portugal language, French language, German language, CommercialProgs content |
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 Nelson |
| Audio area, MP3 area, French language, German language, NonCommercialProgs content, Spanish language | BonkEnc is an audio CD ripper and an encoder for various audio formats. It can produce Ogg Vorbis, MP3 and BONK files. More formats are available through plug-ins. Created: 19/01/2003 by Mark Nelson |
| Compression area, InformationTheory area, German language, Links content | A nice set of links to various resources related to info theory and data compression. German language. Created: 06/06/2002 by Mark Nelson |
| Tutorials content, Fractal area, French language, German language | Online demos of Fractal compression and decompression. Available in English, French, and German. Created: 04/06/2002 by Mark Nelson |
| Zip area, French language, German language, NonCommercialProgs content, Italian language | ZipCentral is a free and easy to use zip file manager with all the utilities you need to manage your zip files. The goal of ZipCentral is to be the most robust freeware zip-package you can find today. It is a great tool for the beginner as well as the expert. Working with zip files has never been easier! Created: 16/05/2002 by Mark Nelson |
| Lossless area, German language, Companies content, Hardware content | This company sells an IP core that performs lossless data compression. Not sure what algorithm they are using, it is described as "GEMAC's data compression algorithm." This algorithm was first published at DCC '95, and is described as a hybrid of ZL1 and ZL2, created with the goal of maximizing compression rate. Created: 14/05/2002 by Mark Nelson |
| Tutorials content, ArithmeticCoding area, German language, SourceCode content |
This page gives an introduction to Arithmetic Coding and shows how to implement it using floats or integers. There is also a proof of the efficiency of the algorithms, along with visualization and Win32 binaries. This page is in English and includes links to material in both German and English.
DataCompression.info user Juergen Abel found the site quite good: Clear description, especially the explanation of the renormalisation part, full source code. Created: 15/04/2002 by Mark Nelson |
| Lossy area, German language, Papers content | A study of lossy compression algorithms, including discussion of JPEG, MPEG, and the DCT. Created: 24/12/2001 by Mark Nelson |
| Archiving area, French language, Japanese language, German language, CommercialProgs content | 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 Nelson |
| Video area, German language, Papers content | This page gives short descriptions of MPEG and H.261 in German. Different systems of coding color information are described as well. Brief, but useful if you don't want to get bogged down in details. Created: 20/06/2001 by Mark Nelson |
| Wavelets area, JPEG2000 area, German language, CommercialLibs content, NonCommercialLibs content |
Luratech has plugins and an SDK for both their proprietary format and JPEG2000. Products come in a dizzying array of options, ActiveX controls, C-SDK, Java-SDK, plugins for PhotoShop or browsers. Note that some of their products can now be downloaded as freeward!
Note: What was once LuraTech is now Algo Vision LuraTech. Reader Tom H. says: Luratech is the fastest licensable SDK out there right now Created: 16/05/2001 by Mark Nelson |
| Wavelets area, German language, Papers content | Links to the papers of Tilo Strutz, concentrating on wavelet based compression. Some papers published in German. Note that Tilo Strutz has added a textbook on image compression to his list of publications. Created: 04/01/2001 by Mark Nelson |
| JPEG area, Wavelets area, MPEG area, ImageCompression area, German language, Books content | Subtitled Basics, Standards and Wavelet-Based Algorithms for Image and Video Coding. This German-language textbook contains full source code (ANSI-C) of a wavelet-based image coder. Created: 04/01/2001 by Mark Nelson |
| Wavelets area, German language, CommercialProgs content |
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 Nelson |
| Archiving area, French language, German language, CommercialProgs content, Spanish language | 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 Nelson |
| Wavelets area, German language, NonCommercialProgs content | This is a freeware image compressor that does wavelet based compression. Lurawave appears to have all their products and documentation available in German language as well as English. In order to establish their products they are making much of it available as freeware. Created: 07/02/2000 by Mark Nelson |
| Lossless area, German language, CommercialProgs content | 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 Nelson |
| Archiving area, German language, NonCommercialProgs content | The docs say it all: der ultimative FREEWARE-Packer. Yes, the internal documentation for this archiver is in German, but users limited to English should still be able to figure this program out. Created: 28/11/1999 by Mark Nelson |
