What are your favorite image/video formats?
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GIF and GIF
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I never used it in person, but the LFP (light field picture) format used by Lytro cameras was an interesting concept—you could change the focus, depth of field, and perspective after the image was captured.
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CIF - Compressed Image File
No particular reason, except that it's a proprietary format I wrote myself, comparable compression to PNG, but totally different codebase and format.
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geotiff
fucking fight me.
and if any one posts h5 as their favorite I'll rip your fingernails off with a pliers.
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AVIF. It's a video format but it works great for photos too and offers much better compression than jepg or even webp without much noticeable loss. I use it on my blog to make the few images I use as light as possible.
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AVIF. It's a video format but it works great for photos too and offers much better compression than jepg or even webp without much noticeable loss. I use it on my blog to make the few images I use as light as possible.
wrote last edited by [email protected]What's the compatibility like? If someone visits your site using IE 11 does it work? How about Firefox 4.0, or Safari 6.1?
The place I used to work had those compatibility requirements. But they were also still mandating the use of IE 11 for all their corporate software. If you're designing and developing for IE 11, you often get Firefox 4.0 and Safari 6.1 compatibility for free.
Still, it's nothing like when I was in uni we needed to design websites with IE 6 compatibility, that will make you question your career choice.
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geotiff
fucking fight me.
and if any one posts h5 as their favorite I'll rip your fingernails off with a pliers.
Do you mean hdf5?
I extensively used COGs (cloud optimised geotiffs) and NetCDF4 (based on hdf5) at work over the last 10 years. Both have their pros and cons.The main limitation with geotiff is its pretty much only usable for layered 2D raster data.
NetCDF4 (hdf5) can set up frames of any dimensionality, you can have datetime axes, time series data, 100d ensemble data, etc.
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Do you mean hdf5?
I extensively used COGs (cloud optimised geotiffs) and NetCDF4 (based on hdf5) at work over the last 10 years. Both have their pros and cons.The main limitation with geotiff is its pretty much only usable for layered 2D raster data.
NetCDF4 (hdf5) can set up frames of any dimensionality, you can have datetime axes, time series data, 100d ensemble data, etc.
Yeah. h5 is the typical industry shorthand and file extension.
The h5 saga was NASA saying "we're going to create a file format that does EVERTHING", and well.. it does.. poorly.
Everything that h5 is allegedly better for is better solved by just moving to either sql or postgres. And if the data aren't that complex, then just send me a geotiff.
If you send me an h5 the first thing I'm doing is moving it over to sqlite or postgres.
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mkv is king.
Video, audio, subtitles, chapters - all in one file.
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CIF - Compressed Image File
No particular reason, except that it's a proprietary format I wrote myself, comparable compression to PNG, but totally different codebase and format.
Obligatory “xkcd standards”
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Is .png no good?
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I like svg, as it is basically an ASCII file. And i can manipulate them with sed/grep etc for bulk changes.
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.bmp just for the anarchy in me
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Is .png no good?
PNG is fine. The industry likes to reinvent the wheel every few years so that you have to upgrade everything. It’s ridiculous nonsense.
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I still have a fondness for TARGA (.TGA) from back in the day...
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M4V for the win.
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Yeah. h5 is the typical industry shorthand and file extension.
The h5 saga was NASA saying "we're going to create a file format that does EVERTHING", and well.. it does.. poorly.
Everything that h5 is allegedly better for is better solved by just moving to either sql or postgres. And if the data aren't that complex, then just send me a geotiff.
If you send me an h5 the first thing I'm doing is moving it over to sqlite or postgres.
wrote last edited by [email protected]HDF5 was designed for multidimensional numeric arrays, which are particularly ill-suited to putting in a classic relational DB.
It’s a scientific data format, not an image format and it sounds like you’re not the intended audience.
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.bmp just for the anarchy in me
Highest quality format there is and ever will be.
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HDF5 was designed for multidimensional numeric arrays, which are particularly ill-suited to putting in a classic relational DB.
It’s a scientific data format, not an image format and it sounds like you’re not the intended audience.
wrote last edited by [email protected]Litterally a scientist working with NASA data and it's scientists and I'm not the intended audience?
I've been in the remote sensing game almost 25 years. And a good amount of that at the federal government. I've sat at the table and shared beers and dinner with the chief scientists behind the modis and gedi mission. There isn't a geospatial data type or format I haven't encountered, and half of them I've buried.
So please, spare this old hand any lectures.
The fact is geospatial has been able to explode because we finally got away from these kinds of anachronistic approaches to data. It's litterally never been a better time to be a geospatial data scientist. Praise be that the age of h5s and local processing is over.
