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Re: Free Lossless Image Format Publications

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I'd be curious to see what the result would be if you took the best format for each individual image and added them together; would it be a significant difference over FLIF by itself? The choice of GPLv3 licensing is unfortunate, since it will limit native browser support.

That's the encoder, which isn't something browsers would usually bother with. The decoder is Apache licensed.

Re: Free Lossless Image Format Publications

#12
FLIF is pretty neat. I hope it takes off, which it might do as Jon works for Cloudinary.

I assume the news is this recent conference paper: http://flif.info/papers/FLIF_ICIP16.pdf

It will be great when you only need one file for all of your responsive image versions and can just take the part you need. Plug - I wrote about this in my high performance web app book along with other types of compression (https://www.packtpub.com/mapt/book/Application%20Development...).

Re: Free Lossless Image Format Publications

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post #7

Apparently the WIP warning was also removed from the site lately[1]. Can we infer that the format is being finalized? [1] https://github.com/FLIF-hub/FLIF-hub.github.io/commit/2b9c81...

It looks like they had a non-alpha release within the last 2 weeks.

https://github.com/FLIF-hub/FLIF/releases

Re: Free Lossless Image Format Publications

#15
When trying to promote an open format, LGPLv3 and such reference implementations aren't exactly helping.

You'd want to maximize adoption, and there BSD can help. Adoption of Xiph.org's Vorbis was in good part supported by such a decision.

Re: Free Lossless Image Format Publications

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post #9

I'd be curious to see what the result would be if you took the best format for each individual image and added them together; would it be a significant difference over FLIF by itself? The choice of GPLv3 licensing is unfortunate, since it will limit native browser support.

That's the encoder , which isn't something browsers would usually bother with. The decoder is Apache licensed.

Thanks, I missed that. Still it means that e.g. Photoshop will never support it, leading to the same conclusion.

Re: Free Lossless Image Format Publications

#17
post #15

When trying to promote an open format, LGPLv3 and such reference implementations aren't exactly helping. You'd want to maximize adoption, and there BSD can help. Adoption of Xiph.org's Vorbis was in good part supported by such a decision.

The LGPL reference implementation is what has scared off me and many others I know who had an interest in this work. In many corporate environments LGPL is untouchable.

Re: Free Lossless Image Format Publications

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The thing about flif that feels good on the old noggin is the fact that you can trade off quality for size just by truncating the file. Imagine a decimal point at the beginning of the file, and your image is a number between 0 and 1. Approximate that number to N digits, and you get an approximation of your image.

Re: Free Lossless Image Format Publications

#20

The thing about flif that feels good on the old noggin is the fact that you can trade off quality for size just by truncating the file. Imagine a decimal point at the beginning of the file, and your image is a number between 0 and 1. Approximate that number to N digits, and you get an approximation of your image.

So it's lossy if you truncate the file? How does it compare to JPEG on a quality/size basis?
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