From: ABBES on
I am looking for the commonly used algorithms to compress images/
videos for transmission over the internet. could you please name me
these algorithms and/or papers. Cheers
From: Jerry Avins on
On 5/5/2010 7:37 PM, ABBES wrote:
> I am looking for the commonly used algorithms to compress images/
> videos for transmission over the internet. could you please name me
> these algorithms and/or papers. Cheers

http://www.jpeg.org/
http://www.mpeg.org/

Jerry
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to dichotomize." --Barbara Smuts, U. Mich.
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From: Dirk Bell on
On May 5, 9:28 pm, Jerry Avins <j...(a)ieee.org> wrote:
> On 5/5/2010 7:37 PM, ABBES wrote:
>
> > I am looking for the commonly used algorithms to compress images/
> > videos for transmission over the internet. could you please name me
> > these algorithms and/or papers. Cheers
>
> http://www.jpeg.org/http://www.mpeg.org/
>
> Jerry
> --
> "I view the progress of science as ... the slow erosion of the tendency
>   to dichotomize." --Barbara Smuts, U. Mich.
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ABBES

Don't forget about the licensing fees.

Dirk
From: Steve Pope on
ABBES <abbes.azzi(a)yahoo.com> wrote:

>I am looking for the commonly used algorithms to compress images/
>videos for transmission over the internet. could you please name me
>these algorithms and/or papers. Cheers

For video H.264, which is a subset of MPEG-4, is the most standard but
there are no "free" versions of it.

Xvid is probably the best combination of being sort-of standard,
good performance, and "free".

For still images you problem is much simpler, just use JPEG.

Steve
From: Clay on
On May 5, 7:37 pm, ABBES <abbes.a...(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am looking for the commonly used algorithms to compress images/
> videos for transmission over the internet. could you please name me
> these algorithms and/or papers. Cheers

In addition to what others have posted.

video: AVCHD (licensed from Sony and Canon)

still: PNG (unlicensed!!!!!!!)