It won't take off, it's a patent trap. If anything, Daala based image format is something good to anticipate.
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VLC Gains A BPG Decoder, But Will This Image Format Ever Take Off?
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Originally posted by rabcor View PostI'm still waiting for a raster image format that's lossless like png but can easily be animated like GIF. If this is going to be it, I like it. I wonder why the guy didn't roll with VP9 though... I mean sure, I prefer HEVC over VP9 for my video files for various reasons, but at least we wouldn't have these licensing issues.
And unseating JPEG is something I would find very welcome, no matter who does it! I hate that format.
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Originally posted by shmerl View PostIt won't take off, it's a patent trap. If anything, Daala based image format is something good to anticipate.
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I've been playing around with bpg on my "seen anime" list:
That page weighs in at about 10mb, with all 353 images being BPG and embedded using base64 inside the html.
It kills mobile browsers, but both firefox and chrome seem to handle it fine (although the whole page takes a few seconds to load).
Note that most images are higher resolution than they are shown in the page, they are being resized by the browser.
BPG really is a very interesting format quality-wise. And for the web, where you can ship the decoder with the images, it does kind of work.
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Maybe I can convert all thumbnails to BPG in http://anime-pictures.net . Now I have (gif/jpeg/png) and WebP version. But first need add hack patch to chromium for native support BPG.
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First improve jpg
Have you guys seen what Mozilla has done with improving jpg? All those reasons why we hate jpg: banding in gradients, text becomes extremely ugly, blocky artifacts and those weird shapes around sharp parts of the image have almost disappeared in their version of jpg.
Why not perfect jpg first and then try to make something like Opus but for images: no patent shit, best in class in every situation(compressed,lossless,animated,transparenc y). There is so much support for jpg and some cpus and gpus are starting to integrate hardware decoding of jpg.
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