[vorbis-dev] ogg pic format ?

Gregory Maxwell greg at linuxpower.cx
Sun Jan 14 15:22:36 PST 2001



On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 12:05:50AM +0100, Philipp Kempgen wrote:
> Jon Shiring wrote:
> 
> > Well, yes.  But that gives one the net effect of a 1-bit alpha
> > channel.  It's just implemented in a way that is non-intuitive.
> 
> Hmm. But you can't have 256 colors AND '1-bit alpha' that way. And even
> worse: parts of the image declared as translucent loose their color
> information.

They aren't translucent, they are transparent and thus have no color
information. :)

It sucks. Use png/jng.

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