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The Data Compression Book , 2nd Edition [Paperback]

Mark Nelson (Author), Jean-Loup Gailly (Author)
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An authoritative reference on data compression is tailored to the popular programming environment and covers such areas as compression techniques, the JPEG compression algorithm, and data compression method options. Original. (Advanced).

About the Author

Jean-Loup Gailly, a software consultant with more than 15 years of programming experience, wrote the compression code of the freeware zip archiver and is the author of the gzip data-compression program.;

C++ programming expert Mark Nelson is director of

software development for Greenleaf Software, Inc., and is contributing

editor and columnist for Windows/DOS Developer's Journal. Mark's

articles have been published in Dr. Dobb's Journal, C User's

Journal, and Windows Tech Journal, among other publications.

He has written best-selling books on data compression and serial

communications.

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The primary purpose of this book is to explain various data-compression techniques using the C programming language. Read the first page
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1.0 out of 5 stars give us more information, Jun 15 2001
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searshing for books is very amazing in Amazone.com but i wish if we (customers )have more information about authers where do they teach; thier email andsome things like that so we could make our desecion
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3.0 out of 5 stars OK for implementors, Aug 25 2000
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This review is from: The Data Compression Book , 2nd Edition (Paperback)
If you want to implement a compression scheme fast easily, or to have general knowledge about compression algorithms this is a very good book. If you really want to deeply understand compression algorithms, to have some kind of insight about them, and to know about the best algorithms available today - this book is has less benefit (understatement).
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3.0 out of 5 stars a book which has its positive and negative sides..., Jun 19 2000
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This review is from: The Data Compression Book , 2nd Edition (Paperback)
PROs: 1. It is one of very few books on data compression available on the market. 2. Description of the IDEAS of compression techniques is very well written. 3. The books comes with the C code for most algorithms. 4. Fairly wide scope of data compression techniques is presented.

CONs: 1. Possibly for copyright reasons, the formats of commonly used file formats are not disclosed; the enclosed propgrams are generic compression algorithms, which do not create (or open) actual .ZIP, .ARC, or .JPG files, which can be opened by commercial programs. Therefore, this book will not help you to open standard compressed files from your home-made programs. 2. There is a missing link between the well described ideas (general principles) of the compression techniques, and their actual algorithms presented as C programs - namely, the algorithms are not described verbally. You have to analyze typically 6-page-long programs to understand how the actual encoding is done. 3. Although there is a section on sound compression, the MP3 standard is not explained. The same applies to MPEG.

SUMMARY: Good to get a general idea how the data compression is performed. Helpful if you want to develop your own compressed data format. Of very limited help if you want to work with standard compressed files in your own program. Requires knowledge of C and some time to study the enclosed code.

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