Curtiss-Wright Controls Embedded Computing (CWCEC) has announced a new dual-channel video compression/decompression board, the Orion, available in both PMC and PCI form factors for use in VME, CompactPCI and desktop PCI systems. The Orion features dual on-board JPEG 2000 engines to support full-frame encoding of standard 625-line PAL or 525-line NTSC composite video. [...]

The JasPer Project is an open-source initiative to provide a free software-based reference implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard (i.e., ISO/IEC 15444-1). This project was started as a collaborative effort between Image Power, Inc. and the University of British Columbia. Presently, the ongoing maintenance and development of the JasPer software is being coordinated by its principal author, Michael Adams

As a follow-on to last summer's gathering of video archivists and
technologists here at the National Library of Medicine, I have been
considering ways to encourage lossless video encoding for preservation,
with a particular interest in JPEG 2000 frame encodings.

Towards that end, and following a suggestion by Ron Murray at the
Library of Congress about MPEG-A as an attractive vehicle for
cross-cutting standards, I've drafted a "strawman" set of documents for
the community's consideration, which may be found at
http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/VideoArchivists2005/follow-on.html. You will

An August 1, 2005 invitational meeting gathered about fifty archivists and technologists involved in the long term preservation of videos and films. The meeting, "Getting to Disk-based Lossless Digital Video Compression", was hosted by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, itself much involved in moving image preservation.

Participants considered the potential of lossless, on-disk video storage in light of the "twilight of tape" as a cost-effective storage media. Other speakers reviewed current video metadata standards, and recent work in automatic extraction of metadata from video. The meeting included the first public demonstration of real-time, full-screen, mathematically-lossless video compression and decompression based on the Motion JPEG 2000 (MJ2) standard.