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I am interest in fractal compression and would like to clarify myths and wild speculation about this technology. There are new developments taking place and I am attempting to gather enough facts and references to be included in the fractal compression article for the benefit of others who are also interested in this subject.
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[edit] TruDef and SoftVideo, Fractal Compression Development Continues
High Definition Fractal Video Compression (TruDef) [1] is the only known commercial video codec under active development capable of encoding full motion video using fractal compression. Its former name was SoftVideo, a product used in a number of CD-ROM games.
Development started in the early 1990's between Philip Taylor Kramer's company Total Multimedia Inc., MCI Communications and Iterated Systems Inc. which resulted in Total Multimedia's version of the codec called SoftVideo, based upon Michael Barnsley's original fractal compression patents and others owed by Iterated Systems Inc. Kramer's contributions made full motion fractal video compression viable with increased quality and compression ratios. In 1994 Total Multimedia Inc. licensed SoftVideo to Spectrum Holobyte for use in its CD-ROM games including Falcon Gold and Star Trek: The Next Generation A Final Unity[2]
While showing promise computer hardware of the time lacked the necessary processing power for fractal video compression to be practical beyond a few select usages. Compression results were only achieved by distributing encoding tasks over a network of servers and took up to 15 hours to encode a single minute of video.
With current computing technology several generations ahead, Total Multimedia Inc. announced in 2007 further development of its SoftVideo codec, renaming it to TruDef and its plans for the next generation codec conforming to modern 64 bit operating system environments.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.tmmi.us/products.html
- ^ Original Manual specifying on page 11 SoftVideo under license from TMM Inc.
[edit] Examples of Fractal Compression up to 700:1
[edit] Screen capture demo of the TruDef Encoder compressing a file 265:1
216MB Raw Source File, 815KB Compressed
You must first install the FM lossless screen capture codec
TruDef VideoPrep Encoder Demo 265:1
You will see from the video no human intervention is required during the encoding process, contrary to false and misleading claims previously made in the Wiki fractal compression article.
Uncompressed video from 265:1 TruDef Demo 265:1
