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  1. still no flif support? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Firefox To Support Google's WebP Image Format For a Faster Web (cnet.com)

    https://flif.info/

  2. Re:Better Idea... by bzipitidoo · · Score: 4, Insightful · on MPEG Founder Says the MPEG Business Model Is Broken (chiariglione.org)

    The revolt against GIF that culminated in PNG over 20 years ago showed that royalty free and patent unencumbered works. I recently learned of Free Lossless Image Format (FLIF), currently in development and intended to replace PNG, and it looks great. Handily beats WEBP, and also addresses animations, the reason GIF didn't completely die. FLIF alone shows that PNG was not a one time freak. But there's also Xiph, which has been working on audio and video codecs for decades, giving us Ogg Vorbis and fairly recently, Opus. And soon we will have AV1.

    Opus supposedly bridges the gap in audio between music and voice, better at both than even the best codecs tuned specifically for one or the other. Opus is good at voice, but from my own experiences, no, it's not the very best. Shouldn't VoIP software use Opus, if it was the best? I'd love to abandon Skype. This is the first I've heard of Codec2, thanks for mentioning it.

    The area most in need of an update is lossy stills, where JPEG is still supreme. (Why didn't JPEG 2000 catch on?) I saw a comparison on stills between AV1 and JPEG, and in my opinion, JPEG is clearly superior. I hope AV1 improves there, but I wonder if we could have a "double" JPEG, bump the 8x8 blocks up to 16x16, just as a stopgap?

    Yet despite all this evidence, IP rights holders still refuse to concede that unencumbered works. What is accomplished by moaning the clearly wrong idea that codecs will not be developed? They really think they can persuade some deep pocketed organizations to swallow that propaganda and join with them? I don't follow that notion of "fractional options", and I don't see why anyone else should either, especially with AV1 in the wings. Meantime, for video I'm sticking with VP9 and Opus (and webVTT) inside WEBM.

  3. Why should PNG be replaced by FLIF? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Can A New Open Photo File Format Replace JPEGs? (cnet.com)

    http://flif.info/

  4. Re:Not impressed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting · on Google Releases Open Source 'Guetzli' JPEG Encoder (betanews.com)

    No, they need to finish FLIF

  5. and yet already bested by FLIF by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on Safari Browser May Soon Be Just As Fast As Chrome With WebP Integration (thenextweb.com)

    FLIF improves on webp by another 14%.
    Hope it stabilizes soon.

    http://flif.info/

  6. Re:Who cares? by Travis+Mansbridge · · Score: 2 · on DRM In JPEGs? (eff.org)

    Check out FLIF which beats almost any other format in quality per byte regardless of whether you're at the low end (JPG) or the high end (PNG) of the quality scale

  7. Mildly Interesting: Pieter Wuille works on Bitcoin by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1 · on FLIF: Free Lossless Image Format

    From the FLIF website:

    FLIF is based on MANIAC compression. MANIAC (Meta-Adaptive Near-zero Integer Arithmetic Coding) is an algorithm for entropy coding developed by Jon Sneyers and Pieter Wuille.

    That Pieter Wuille is known as "sipa" on GitHub; you can see his nascent FLIF work here. Pieter is one of the major contributors to the Bitcoin project, and he is a co-founder or early employee of Blockstream.