Hello,

I have been reading about the progress made with a new graphics format called .bpg (better portable graphics).
Here are some examples of comparison between .jpg and .bpg pictures:
http://bellard.org/bpg/lena.html

Here are some technical details on the format:
http://bellard.org/bpg/

Bertus

 

Great results.
Now, does this affect us on this forum?

 

Hello,

No, it is not implemented on the forum.
I only posted it for information.

Bertus

 

I don't see the advantage. BPG loads slower than the JPG and BPG is larger.

 

I don't see the advantage. BPG loads slower than the JPG and BPG is larger.

It is when the file bytes are smaller; in the begging "Your Correct" but the bottom pic has a little less than a JPEG's largest and looks better than any?

 

I don't see the advantage. BPG loads slower than the JPG and BPG is larger.

Bertus was careful to use similar byte sizes to compare quality. Seems to me a meg of this will load as fast as a meg of that.

 

Bertus was careful to use similar byte sizes to compare quality. Seems to me a meg of this will load as fast as a meg of that.

So what is the advantage?

 

So what is the advantage?

The BPG pics of similar byte size are clearer.

OOPs, I had a typo in there.

 

The BMP pics of similar byte size are clearer.

OK see it now. Was looking mainly for speed. Actually the difference is in the smaller sized files. Larger files not too much of a difference between them.

 

Hello,

The decoding of the .bpg pictures are done by a java script on that webpage.
Thats why it is a bit slower.

Bertus

 

if you ccan code like that
http://bellard.org/bpg/bpgdec.js

you can call yourself a real programmer.

I sometimes wonder how it is possible to write code like that?

you must be a maniac almost.

 

Agree. You would have to be Obsessive-Compulsive to learn to do that and have a worse case of, "Get a life" than people who hang around posting on internet forums all day.

It was a print out like that which convinced me NOT to learn Machine Language in the 1960's.

 

well I wrote quite a few programs, but I'm baffled when looking at a source code like this one.

Maybe it was obfuscated later on to save transmission bytes.

 

its kindof- You were thinking you can progam...but consider this!

 

if you ccan code like that
http://bellard.org/bpg/bpgdec.js

you can call yourself a real programmer.

I sometimes wonder how it is possible to write code like that?

you must be a maniac almost.

No one would code like that, with, perhaps, an exception for the criminally insane, and those oddballs that attempt to write the most compact Perl programs for fun (but there may be some overlap there )

Remember, whitespace still takes up memory, so there are programs that will strip it out and still others that will attempt to compact JavaScript into a more portable (read smaller) form, since this data is transferred over the internet to your computer when the resource (script) is requested.

 

BPG (Better Portable Graphics) is a new image format. Its purpose is to replace the JPEG image format when quality or file size is an issue.
High compression ratio. Files are much smaller than JPEG for similar quality.
Supported by most Web browsers with a small Javascript decoder (gzipped size: 56 KB).
Based on a subset of the HEVC open video compression standard.
Supports the same chroma formats as JPEG (grayscale, YCbCr 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4) to reduce the losses during the conversion. An alpha channel is supported. The RGB, YCgCo and CMYK color spaces are also supported.
Native support of 8 to 14 bits per channel for a higher dynamic range.
Lossless compression is supported.
Various metadata (such as EXIF, ICC profile, XMP) can be included.
These are the advantages of .bpg format.

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