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Bellard Creates New Image Format To Replace JPEG

Posted by samzenpus on from the new-pictures dept.

An anonymous reader writes Fabrice Bellard (creator of FFMPEG, QEMU, JSLinux...) proposes a new image format that could replace JPEG : BPG. For the same quality, files are about half the size of their JPEG equivalents. He released libbpg (with source) as well as a JS decompressor, and set up a demo including the famous Lena image.

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  1. Re:JPEG2000 replaced JPEG by mwvdlee · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Do you know what a CDN is?
    I'm guessing the GP is talking about things like Cloudflare, MaxCDN, Azure CDN and Cloudftront.
    There are very few people who'd be able to replicate such a network on their own. In fact, neither do those CDN companies.
    Also, the statement "If one can't do the work on their own, they probably shouldn't be in the IT field at all" is blatently stupid, unless ofcourse you mold your own CPU's from raw sand.

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