Google is putting out a new open source image format, said to offer higher compression rates than JPEG2000.
I just thought someone with the appropriate technical knowledge ought to take a look at in case it might be useful for use in Second Life. http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/webp-new-image-format-for-web.html<%20http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/webp-new-image-format-for-web.html> *To improve on the compression that JPEG provides, we used an image > compressor based on the VP8 codec that Google > open-sourced<http://blog.webmproject.org/2010/05/introducing-webm-open-web-media-project.html>in > May 2010. We applied the techniques from VP8 video intra frame coding to > push the envelope in still image coding. We also adapted a very lightweight > container based on > RIFF<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Interchange_File_Format>. > While this container format contributes a minimal overhead of only 20 bytes > per image, it is extensible to allow authors to save meta-data they would > like to store. > > While the benefits of a VP8 based image format were clear in theory, we > needed to test them in the real world. In order to gauge the effectiveness > of our efforts, we randomly picked about 1,000,000 images from the web > (mostly JPEGs and some PNGs and GIFs) and re-encoded them to WebP without > perceptibly compromising visual quality. This resulted in an average 39% > reduction in file size. We expect that developers will achieve in practice > even better file size reduction with WebP when starting from an uncompressed > image. > * http://code.google.com/speed/webp/ -- v i r t u a l w o r l d e n t h u s i a s t -- http://www.google.com/profiles/s u e z a n n e --
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