Realtimetech's S.I.K format

This document describes the container, codec and relevant libraries used to implement the screen & video capture for the Realtimetech’s Maxmedia product. Reproduction or making a copies without permission is highly prohibited!

This page describes past problems, current ideas and a future plans for the development of the SIK format and codec. Information is divided upon few categories which, in my opinion, are important for the SIK development. Feel free to comment~

1. File format description
2. Screen codec
3. Streaming architecture
4. Library API
5. Terms and technologies
6. Research and experiments

1. File formats
   1. Windows Media Format Files
   2. Windows Media Format MSDN
   3. Xiph.org
   4. Ogg format
   5. Matroska.org
   6. FLV / Flash video on Wikipedia
   7. FLV / Flash video usage
2. Codecs
   1. Windows Mediao
   2. On2 VP3
   3. Theora
   4. Vorbis
   5. Flash Video Screen codec
   6. FFMPEG - Free MPEG Codec
   7. DosBox Zipped Motion Blocks
   8. MSU Screen Capture Lossless codec
3. Compression algorithms
   1. LZO & UCL (LZ+Huffman) universal algorithms by Markus Franz Xavier
4. Misc
   1. AxPipe Binary stream class library
5. 1. DirectShow filter samples, Q&A
6. References
   1. add your own