5. Platform-Independent Image Conversion Toolkits

  Name:     Berkeley MPEG Tools
  Purpose:  Software MPEG1 video decoder and encoder
  Author:   Berkeley Plateau Multimedia Research Group
  Contact:  mpeg-bugs@plateau.cs.berkeley.edu
  FTP:      ftp://mm-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/multimedia/mpeg
  WWW:      http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/mpeg/index.html
            http://www-plateau.cs.berkeley.edu/plateau.html
  Features: MPEG-1 statistics gathering and analysis tools, including two
            new tools, mpeg_blocks and mpeg_bits, which analyze
            videobitstreams allowing you to examine block encoding and bit
            rate allocation.

  Name:      gd
  Purpose:   GIF manipulating library
  Version:   1.1.1
  Platforms: Unix, VMS, Windows 3.1 and NT, OS/2, MS-DOS
  Author:    Tom Boutell <boutell@netcom.com>
             116 14th Ave E, Apt 2, Seattle, WA 98102
             http://sunsite.unc.edu/boutell/index.html
  FTP:       ftp://isis.cshl.org/pub/gd/gd1.1.1.tar.Z
  WWW:       http://www.boutell.com/gd
  Imports:   GIF
  Exports:   GIF
  Features:  On-the-fly creation of charts and graphs for WWW. Polygon 
             drawing and filling, brushes, tiles, line styling (even with
             brushes), and supports interlaced GIFs. Online HTML manual and
             full source code included.
            
  Name:     libtiff
  Purpose:  TIFF file manipulation toolkit
  Version:  3.3
  Author:   Sam Leffler <sam@okeeffe.berkeley.edu>
  FTP:      ftp://sgi.com/graphics/tiff/
  Imports:  TIFF, SGI
  Exports:  TIFF
  Features: Tools for image conversions and transformations, and much
            contributed software.

  Name:     Independent JPEG Group's JPEG Library
  Purpose:  JPEG image manipulation toolkit
  Version:  6a
  Author:   Independent JPEG Group <jpeg-info@uunet.uu.net>
  FTP:      ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/jpegsrc.v6a.tar.gz
  Imports:  JPEG, JFIF, BMP, GIF TGA, Utah RLE, PBM formats
  Exports:  JPEG, JFIF, BMP, GIF TGA, Utah RLE, PBM formats
  Features: Baseline and extended processes, format conversion
            Complete source code included.
  Comments: This is *the* standard toolkit for implementing JPEG
            functionality into software.

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