import changes from experimental 5529a2e^
and enable build in autoconf and makefile.unix; windows will be treated
separately.
Change-Id: Ie2e177a99db63190b4cd647b3edee3b4e13719e9
Add predictive filtering option for Alpha plane.
Valid range for filter option is [0, 5] corresponding to prediction
methods none, horizontal, vertical, gradient & paeth filter.
The prediction method 5 will try all the prediction methods (0 to 4)
and pick the prediction method that gives best compression.
Change-Id: I9244d4a9c5017501a9696c7cec5045f04c16d49b
Add code for Alpha encoding & decoding. The alpha compression is done
via backward reference counts encoded with Arithmetic encoder (TCoder).
Also provided is lossy Alpha pre-processing option via level-quantizations
using kNN heuristic.
Change-Id: Ib6b13530c1a4ab6493edcb586ad29fe242bc1766
