I couldn't see any information on speed performances. There is certainly a price to pay for these impressive results. It could be the compression time. I hope not the uncompressing time.
Free Lossless Image Format
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#12I want to believe.
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#13How does this unicorn achieve all this, and unencumbered by patents on top of everything else?
A million monkeys, scratching their heads, looking for a better way to save/send their photo albums. Progress has been on order for a while now, someone(s) is/was bound to crack it sooner or later.
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#14Sounds almost too good to be true... any major downside, other than current lack of support?
Because it is GPL3, it won't be supported by Google on Android, by Apple probably anywhere, or by Microsoft anywhere.
In other words, it's a lovely idea, but due to a poor choice of license, it won't get any adoption. C.f. Ogg Vorbis, where the license for the specification is public domain, and the license for the libraries are BSD-like.
To quote FSF:
Some libraries implement free standards that are competing against restricted standards, such as Ogg Vorbis (which competes against MP3 audio) and WebM (which competes against MPEG-4 video). For these projects, widespread use of the code is vital for advancing the cause of free software, and does more good than a copyleft on the project's code would do.[1]
[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-recommendations.html
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#15Where are the images to compare? Bellard has a very neat demonstration on his page http://xooyoozoo.github.io/yolo-octo-bugfixes/#nymph&jpg=s&b... BTW, credit to the flif people for linking competitor formats bpg and webP
It's lossless. They look just like the originals.
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#16I don't see any foundations or corporations backing this project. Without support (I hope something like this does gain wide scale support (SVG in browsers for the Internet please already!) I don't see this being accepted.
What you say it's true for a wide scale usage. However, imagine a small company, startup, or a sole developer using this for their projects or as a internal format. I found it very interesting even if there is not a widespread use of it.
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#17Where are the images to compare? Bellard has a very neat demonstration on his page http://xooyoozoo.github.io/yolo-octo-bugfixes/#nymph&jpg=s&b... BTW, credit to the flif people for linking competitor formats bpg and webP
Well given that they're all lossless formats, the image should appear identical with any of the codecs, with only the file size (and encoding style) being different.
More practically, since browsers won't have an flif decoder there isn't an easy way to embed the images online without reencoding them in a different format, which would rather defeat the purpose of putting up sample images.
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#18Request denied by WatchGuard HTTP Proxy. Reason: Category 'Newly Registered Websites'
WatchGuard is a disease. They also listed Hackaday as banned for "Hacking". Ever try to get a site unlisted from them? It's nearly impossible, and may only last a month or so before it goes back on the blacklist.
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#19Wow! Higher compression than any other format, full transparency support, progressive/partial loading AND animations?! I can't wait for this to get widespread adoption!
Github repo here btw: https://github.com/jonsneyers/FLIF
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#20The 'only download as much of the file as you need' way of managing detail levels is brilliant.