2008/12/29 Matt Mahoney <matmaho...@yahoo.com>: > --- On Mon, 12/29/08, Philip Hunt <cabala...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> Incidently, reading Matt's posts got me interested in writing a >> compression program using Markov-chain prediction. The prediction bit >> was a piece of piss to write; the compression code is proving >> considerably more difficult. > > Well, there is plenty of open source software. > http://cs.fit.edu/~mmahoney/compression/ > > If you want to write your own model and just need a simple arithmetic coder, > you probably want fpaq0. Most of the other programs on this page use the same > coder or some minor variation of it.
I've just had a look at it, thanks. Am I right in understanding that the coder from fpaq0 could be used with any other predictor? -- Philip Hunt, <cabala...@googlemail.com> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ------------------------------------------- agi Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/ Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=8660244&id_secret=123753653-47f84b Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
