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ARC is a file format by SEA (System Enhancement Associates) that was very popular before Phil Katz's introduction of the ZIP format. The file format and the program were both called ARC. The ARC program essentially made obsolete the use of combinations of the SQ program to compress files and the LU program to create .LBR archives by combining the functions of both compression and archiving into a single program. ARC compresses multiple files into one - but unlike ZIP, not entire directory trees. The .arc format was the subject of quite a bit of controversy in the 1980s - an important event in the open source debate. A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to show its format. ...
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet Standard that extends the format of e-mail to support: text in character sets other than US-ASCII; non-text attachments; multi-part message bodies; and header information in non-ASCII character sets. ...
In computer science and information theory, data compression or source coding is the process of encoding information using fewer bits (or other information-bearing units) than an unencoded representation would use through use of specific encoding schemes. ...
A file format is a particular way to encode information for storage in a computer file. ...
Phil Katz, shown in 1994, holds a computer disk containing compression software made by his company, PKWare Inc. ...
The ZIP file format is a popular data compression and archival format. ...
SQ was a program used in the early 1980s on both MS-DOS and CP/M computer systems to compress files so they use less space. ...
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Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...
.arc is often also used as a file extension for several different file types that have in common that they are some kind of archive files. A filename extension or filename suffix is an extra set of (usually) alphanumeric characters that is appended to the end of a filename to allow computer users (as well as various pieces of software on the computer system) to quickly determine the type of data stored in the file. ...
In the late 1980s a dispute arose between SEA, maker of the ARC program, and PKWARE (Phil Katz Software) over the rights to a program named ARC (or PKARC). It quickly expanded into one of the largest controversies the BBS world ever saw. PKZIP is an archiving tool originally written by the late Phil Katz, and marketed by his company PKWARE, Inc. ...
Ward Christensen and the computer that ran the first public Bulletin Board System, CBBS from BBS: The Documentary âBBSâ redirects here. ...
Additional Notes The SEA vs. PKWARE legal case brought trademark/copyright protection, and intellectual property issues to the forefront to those BBS cultures based on IBM/Intel computers. For example, information about the case was disseminated over the Fidonet network, a subset of the BBS scene usually running on IBM/Intel PC hardware in its early years. In retrospect, SEA vs. PKWARE was largely a non-issue to most BBS users outside of Fidonet. A trademark or trade mark[1] is a distinctive sign of some kind which is used by an individual, business organization or other legal entity to uniquely identify the source of its products and/or services to consumers, and to distinguish its products or services from those of other entities. ...
Articles with similar titles include copywrite. ...
For the 2006 film, see Intellectual Property (film). ...
The FidoNet logo FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used for communication between bulletin board systems. ...
The FidoNet logo FidoNet is a worldwide computer network that is used for communication between bulletin board systems. ...
The major players were Thom Henderson of SEA, and Phil Katz of PKWARE. While others were involved, the lines were soon drawn as Henderson vs. Katz. Thom Henderson had previously been known for his work with Fidonet, including organizing the IFNA (International Fidonet Association) and being an editor of FidoNews. Phil Katz, shown in 1994, holds a computer disk containing compression software made by his company, PKWare Inc. ...
The controversy centered on a program called ARC, released around 1985, which would compress and store groups of files as one file, making it easier and quicker to download programs and support files at once off of BBSes. This archiving software was written at SEA, and the source code was freely available. Because of the ease of use and availability of this program, it quickly became the de facto standard for file archives on Intel-based IBM machines. The crux of the dispute was Phil Katz's release of a program called PKARC, a faster version of ARC with assembler routines. Back then, compiler optimization was not as good as it is now. In April of 1988, SEA sued Phil Katz and PKWARE for trademark violation, use of the ARC "look and feel", and direct lifting of ARC code. This was one of the first times that a member of the BBS community sued another member, and it was certainly the most publicized and covered of any up to that time. The debate over this event spread to many parts of Fidonet and other online services such as Compuserve. Calls were made for protests, petitions, renaming of .ARC files to .SUE, and blatant violation of SEA's claims to ownership with the intention of bankrupting the company in legal fees. Ironically, Henderson's own work in architecting and improving Fidonet were used against him, as the network spread more debates, contentions, and rumors regarding the legal case than he could reasonably be expected to respond to. Ultimately, SEA was sold to a Japanese company in 1992 and Henderson moved back to Virginia. While the .arc format has fallen out of favor, the .zip format remains in widespread use.
- .arc (all systems)
- .ark (adopted by some bulletin boards as a naming convention indicating that the file contained software for CP/M rather than MS-DOS).
- .sue (due to all the legal issues)
A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to show its format. ...
CP/M was an operating system originally created for Intel 8080/85 based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. ...
Microsofts disk operating system, MS-DOS, was Microsofts implementation of DOS, which was the first popular operating system for the IBM PC, and until recently, was widely used on the PC compatible platform. ...
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet Standard that extends the format of e-mail to support: text in character sets other than US-ASCII; non-text attachments; multi-part message bodies; and header information in non-ASCII character sets. ...
See also This is a list of file formats used by archivers and compressors. ...
External links - ARC - free software Linux/Unix port of the .arc compression program
- nomarch - another free software .arc compression program for Linux/Unix
- The BBS Documentary: Compression - A documentary that discusses ARC history, in the context of BBS
Video codecs (Comparison) | MPEG-4 ASP 3ivx · DivX · FFmpeg MPEG-4 · HDX4 · Xvid | H.264/MPEG-4 AVC CoreAVC · QuickTime H.264 · x264 A codec is a device or program capable of performing encoding and decoding on a digital data stream or signal. ...
Look up Implementation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
A video codec is a device or software module that enables video compression or decompression for digital video. ...
This is a comparison of video codecs. ...
MPEG-4 Part 2 is a video compression technology developed by MPEG. It belongs to the MPEG-4 ISO/IEC standard (ISO/IEC 14496-2). ...
3ivx is a video codec created by 3ivx Technologies. ...
DivX is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. ...
FFmpeg is a collection of free software that can record, convert and stream digital audio and video. ...
HDX4 is a MPEG4 codec developed by a German company named Jomigo Visual Technology. ...
Xvid (formerly XviD) is a video codec library following the MPEG-4 standard. ...
H.264, MPEG-4 Part 10, or AVC (for Advanced Video Coding), is a digital video codec standard that is noted for achieving very high data compression. ...
CoreAVC is a video decoder developed by CoreCodec, implementing the MPEG-4 AVC standard (also known as H.264) used, for example, in next-generation video disc formats HD DVD and Blu-Ray. ...
QuickTime is a multimedia framework developed by Apple Inc. ...
x264 is a free software library for encoding H.264/MPEG-4 AVC video streams. ...
| Lossless CorePNG · FFV1 · Huffyuv · Lagarith · MSU Lossless Lossless data compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data. ...
CorePNG is a lossless codec based on PNG. Essentially, each frame is compressed as a PNG, so if PNG does it, this codec does too. ...
FFV1 which stands for FF video codec 1 is an experimental video encoder and decoder featuring lossless, intra-frame only and relatively high compression. ...
Huffyuv (or HuffYUV) is a very fast, lossless Win32 video codec written by Ben Rudiak-Gould, meant to replace uncompressed YUV as a video capture format. ...
Lagarith is an open source lossless video codec written by Ben Goldman. ...
MSU Lossless video codec is an lossless video codec written by MSU Graphics&Media Lab Video Group. ...
| Others Cinepak · Dirac · Indeo · VP3 · VP7 · Pixlet · Snow · Tarkin · Theora · WMV Compressed with Cinepak, quality 40% Cinepak is a video codec, developed by Radius Inc to accommodate 1x (150 kbyte/s) CD-ROM transfer rates. ...
Dirac is a prototype algorithm for the encoding and decoding (see codec) of raw video. ...
Indeo Video (commonly known now simply as Indeo) is a video codec developed by Intel in 1992. ...
VP3 was originally a proprietary video codec developed by On2 Technologies. ...
TrueMotion VP7 is a video codec developed by On2 Technologies as a successor to earlier efforts such as VP3, VP5 and TrueMotion VP6. ...
Pixlet is a video codec created by Apple Computer and based on wavelets, designed to enable viewing of full resolution, high resolution movies in real time at low DV data rates. ...
Snow is an experimental video codec developed by Michael Niedermayer for the FFmpeg package. ...
This page is about the video compression codec. ...
Theora is a video codec being developed by the Xiph. ...
Windows Media Video (WMV) is a generic name for the set of video codec technologies developed by Microsoft. ...
| | Audio codecs (Comparison) | General ADPCM · ATRAC · Dolby Digital · Musepack · TwinVQ · Vorbis · WMA An audio codec is a computer program that compresses/decompresses digital audio data according to a given audio file format or streaming audio format. ...
The following tables compare general and technical information for a variety of audio codecs. ...
Audio compression is a form of data compression designed to reduce the size of audio files. ...
Pulse-code modulation (PCM) is a modulation technique. ...
ATRAC (Adaptive TRansform Acoustic Coding) is a family of proprietary audio compression algorithms used to store information on MiniDiscs and other Sony-branded audio players. ...
Dolby Digital logotype Dolby Digital is the marketing name for a series of lossy audio compression technologies by Dolby Laboratories. ...
Musepack or MPC is an open source lossy audio codec, specifically optimized for transparent compression of stereo audio at bitrates of 160-180 kbit/s. ...
TwinVQ (transform-domain weighted interleaved vector quantization) is an audio compression technique developed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT). ...
Vorbis is an open source, lossy audio codec project headed by the Xiph. ...
Windows Media Audio (WMA) is a proprietary compressed audio file format developed by Microsoft. ...
| Speech/Voice iLBC · IMBE · iSAC · QCELP · Speex · Truespeech Speech coding is the compression of speech (into a code) for transmission with speech codecs that use audio signal processing and speech processing techniques. ...
The Internet Low Bit Rate Codec (iLBC) is a royalty free narrowband speech codec, developed by Global IP Sound (GIPS). ...
IMBE a is speech coding standard. ...
iSAC is a wideband speech codec, developed by Global IP Sound (GIPS). ...
QCELP is a speech codec developed in 1994 to increase the speech quality of the IS-96A codec used earlier in CDMA networks. ...
Speex is a free software speech codec that claims to be unencumbered by patent restrictions. ...
Truespeech is a proprietary audio codec produced by the DSP Group. ...
| Lossless Apple Lossless · Dolby TrueHD · FLAC · Monkey's Audio · TTA · WavPack · WMA Lossless Lossless data compression is a class of data compression algorithms that allows the exact original data to be reconstructed from the compressed data. ...
Apple Lossless (also known as Apple Lossless Encoder, ALE, or Apple Lossless Audio Codec, ALAC) is an audio codec developed by Apple Inc. ...
Dolby TrueHD logo Dolby TrueHD, from Dolby Laboratories, is an advanced lossless multi-channel audio codec, intended primarily for high-end home-entertainment equipment, such as Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD. In this application, Dolby TrueHD competes with DTS-HD Master Audio, another lossless codec from Digital Theater System. ...
FLAC, an acronym for Free Lossless Audio Codec, is a popular file format for audio data compression. ...
Monkeyâs Audio is a lossless audio compression codec. ...
True Audio (abbreviated TTA) is a free, simple real-time lossless audio codec, based on adaptive prognostic filters which has shown satisfactory results comparing to majority of modern analogs. ...
WavPack is a free, open source lossless audio compression format developed by David Bryant. ...
Windows Media Audio 9 Lossless is a lossless data lossless audio codec by Microsoft, released in early 2003. ...
| | Archivers (Comparison) | Open Source 7-Zip · Ark · File Roller · KGB Archiver · PeaZip · The Unarchiver It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Comparison of file archivers. ...
The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file archivers. ...
Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ...
7-Zip is an open source file archiver designed originally for the Microsoft Windows operating system, and later made available to other systems. ...
Ark is an archiving tool for KDE, included into kdeutils package. ...
File-roller is an archive manager for the GNOME environment. ...
KGB Archiver is an open-source file archiver and data compression utility created by Tomasz Pawlak. ...
PeaZip is an open source OS-portable file archiver, released under LGPL for Microsoft Windows and Linux (Linux version requires libgdk_pixbuf library). ...
The Unarchiver is an open source data compression utility, which supports more formats than BOMArchiveHelper, the built-in archive unpacker program in Mac OS X. It can also handle filenames in foreign character sets, created with non-English versions of other operating systems. ...
| Freeware DGCA · FilZip · GCA · IZArc · StuffIt Expander · TUGZip · Zipeg · ZipGenius · WinUHA This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ...
In computing, DGCA is a freeware compression utility created in 2001 by Shin-ichi Tsuruta (鶴田真一, Shin-ichi Tsuruta). ...
This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
In computing, GCA is a freeware compression utility created in 2000 by Shin-ichi Tsuruta. ...
IZArc is a freeware file archiver for Microsoft Windows. ...
StuffIt Expander used to be a freeware, closed source data compression software utility developed by Allume Systems (formerly Aladdin Systems) It runs in Mac OS Classic, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and Linux/UNIX. It does not compress files. ...
TUGZip is a freeware file archiver for Microsoft Windows. ...
Zipeg is a decompression application made by Leo Kuznetsov for Mac OS X that handles zip files. ...
ZipGenius is a freeware file archiver designed for Microsoft Windows users, developed by Matteo Riso of M.Dev Software. ...
UHarc is a solid, high-compression 386+ DOS and Windows file archiver with multimedia support. ...
| Proprietary ALZip · BOMArchiveHelper · MacBinary · PowerArchiver · Squeez · StuffIt · WinAce · WinRAR · WinRK · WinZip Proprietary software is software with restrictions on using, copying and modifying as enforced by the proprietor. ...
ALZip is an archive and compression utility from ESTsoft for Microsoft Windows. ...
BOMArchiveHelper is the default archive file handler in Mac OS X. It is a service application that has no GUI when double-clicked, rather it is invoked by opening its associated files or by choosing Create archive of file in the Finders contextual menu. ...
Due to the Mac OS forked file structure, transferring Mac OS files to non-Macintosh computers is problematic. ...
PowerArchiver is a proprietary file archiver designed for Microsoft Windows users, developed by ConeXware Inc. ...
Squeez is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility by Speedproject. ...
StuffIt is a family of software utilities for archiving and compressing files on the Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows and Linux platforms: it was originally produced for the Macintosh and remains common on that platform. ...
WinAce is an archiving program with its own powerful ACE compression format and built-in support for other common archive formats types such as ZIP, RAR and MS-CAB. The Mac OS X and Linux versions are called Unace and are command line programs. ...
WinRAR is a shareware file archiver and data compression utility by Eugene Roshal. ...
WinRK is a commercial file archiver program for Microsoft Windows. ...
WinZip Computing Inc. ...
| Command line ARC · ARJ · JAR · bzip2 · compress · gzip · Info-ZIP · LHA · lzop · NABOB · PAQ · PKZIP · RAR · SBC · UPX This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...
ARJ is a tool for creating compressed file archives. ...
JAR is a tool for creating compressed file archives. ...
The correct title of this article is . ...
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The correct title of this article is . ...
Info-ZIP is an open source version of Phil Katzs deflate and inflate routines used in his popular file compression program, PKZIP. The free code released by the Info-ZIP project under a BSD license spawned a horde of PKZIP imitators (WinZip, PicoZip, PowerArchiver, Turbozip, PowerZip and many more...
LHA is a freeware compression utility and associated file format. ...
LZOP is a free software file compression tool which uses LZO and is under the GPL license. ...
NABOB was a joke file compression and archiving tool created by Thomas M. Tuerke (SysOp of Gravesend BBS) and Al Kalian (SysOp of Palladin BBS) at the height of the compression wars that resulted from the legal conflicts between ARC and Phil Katz. ...
PAQ is a series of open source data compression archivers that have evolved through collaborative development to top rankings on several benchmarks measuring compression ratio (although at the expense of speed and memory usage). ...
PKZIP is an archiving tool originally written by the late Phil Katz, and marketed by his company PKWARE, Inc. ...
REDIRECT RAR (file format) ...
SBC may refer to: // South Birmingham College, a college of Further Education in Birmingham, England St. ...
UPX, the Ultimate Packer for eXecutables, is an open source executable packer (EXE packer) supporting a number of file formats. ...
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