Why BPG will replace GIFs and more

Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by tux3 on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @12:05PM (#10974406)

Note that BPG is based on HEVC still frames, and may be more patent-emcubered than current alternatives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Portable_Graphics#Paten...

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Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by lallysingh on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @12:36PM (#10974611)

Patents were my first thought when reading the OP. Any media format discussion without IP is fairly meaningless.

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Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by seba_dos1 on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @02:05PM (#10975195)

"Why BPG won't replace GIFs and not only"

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Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by Ace17 on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @12:45PM (#10974668)

Why not another BPG-like based on VP9, then?

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Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @01:29PM (#10974957)

I think one based on VP10 is a possibility, since the Alliance for Open Media now includes all major browser makers except Apple, and a bunch of big websites.

Currently the members seem to be working on converging VP10, Daala and Thor tech in the video realm but I'd guess images might be on their radar too.

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Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by fnordfnordfnord on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @02:58PM (#10975561)

Looks like FLIF can do animations as well. http://flif.info/animation.html

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Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by jason_s on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @12:22AM (#10978392)

FLIF is encumbered by GPL which means it's not going to make it into any digital cameras.

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Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by jaredcheeda on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @12:30AM (#10978409)

The first official version of FLIF has not been released yet, and currently they are discussing releasing it under Apache 2 or MPL (Mozilla Public License).

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Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by ksec on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @04:23AM (#10979098)

Please Not MPL. Apache 2, so most company could understand, MPL they will have to spend a lot more time evaluating it.

And I dont know of any popular project that uses MPL apart from Mozilla Firefox.

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Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by jonsneyers on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @05:54AM (#10979387)

We are probably going to change to Apache2 for the decoder, LGPLv3+ for the encoder.

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Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by jabl on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @09:16AM (#10980060)

LibreOffice?

Eigen (perhaps not "popular" unless you're interested in doing linear algebra with C++.. :-/ )?

Surely there are others as well..

If you want a weak copyleft license, IMHO MPL-2.0 is about the best available at the moment, and relatively easy to follow.

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Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by jason_s on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @09:54AM (#10980255)

oh, good! :-)

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Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by IshKebab on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @01:02PM (#10974771)

That's basically what WebP is.

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Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by JoshTriplett on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @01:20PM (#10974895)

As far as I know, WebP still uses VP8, not VP9.

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Re:Why BPG will replace GIFs and more by TD-Linux on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @06:01PM (#10976931)

Which is a shame, because it could have big a big leap over JPEG instead of a sidegrade if they had waited a bit.

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