interesting read for enthusiast.....

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check this one out;
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/compression-faq/part1/

this"Part 2: (Long) introductions to data compression techniques"
is speacially interesting....
[[72] What is wavelet theory?
[73] What is the theoretical compression limit?
[74] Introduction to JBIG
[75] Introduction to JPEG
[76] What is Vector Quantization?
[77] Introduction to Fractal compression
[78] The Burrows-Wheeler block sorting algorithm ]

yes,there's mpeg too......


somehow got to it by looking for data on some vintage intel
capturing board...("Intel Smart Video Recorder"),found some info on vintage hardware on NG's :[ "Od:John Bloome(bloomer@rodson.crd.ge.com)
Tema:survey of hardware for still-frame and motion video compression

News grupe:comp.compression, comp.periphs, comp.dcom.fax
Datum:1992-04-03 15:07:38 PST " ]

typed in some hardware mentioned (in NG post mentioned above) for intel ("82750PB"),google spits this;
http://www.google.com/search?q=82750PB&ie=ISO-8859-2&hl=hr&btnG=Google+pretraga&lr=

it's the 7th link.......

why am i telling you all this?
just so i can remember how i did it..(hehe)..i searched before and found zilch on this vintage capturing hardware....
when you think all started back in the 80's......(by the end of 80's intel already had "DVI"):"1989 brachten Intel und IBM erste DVI-Produkte (Digital Video Interactive), die ActionMedia-750-Karten, auf den Markt"

this is in a range of mcgowan's "avi overview" but seems better ( i took a fast look..lot of nice things to read)

enjoy_

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Interesting! Thank you for the link. I liked this bit and the accompanying proof:

"In short, the counting argument says that if a lossless compression program compresses some files, it must expand others, *regardless* of the compression method, because otherwise there are simply not enough bits to enumerate all possible output files. Despite the extreme simplicity of this theorem and its proof, some people still fail to grasp it and waste a lot of time trying to find a counter-example."