[vorbis-dev] ogg pic format ?

[Nils Philippsen]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2001, Gregory Maxwell wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 02:24:30PM +0800, Steve Underwood wrote:
> > Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Jan 14, 2001 at 03:37:38AM +0100, Gerry wrote:
> > > > Will there be an ogg picture format as well ? Would be nice.. Would be great
> > > > with an open-source pic format with alpha-channel, layers, fx, etc. :) ..
> > > > btw, http://burnallgifs.org/
> > >
> > > Png, Jng, mng.
> > >
> > > I believe that later on there will be support for these content types in ogg
> > > streams.
> >
> > What is jng? Is that just a slip of the fingers for jpg?
>
> Part of the mng standard. JNG is jpeg encapsulated into PNG. It has all of
> png's advantages (alpha, gamma, more metadata, etc).

And all of JPEGs disadvantages (lossyness -- at least in JPEGs most
commonly used incarnations) :-).

Nils

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