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GIF: used to be affected by LZW84 patent, this is now expired, but still not fully free (?), obsolete, poor compression, 256 colors only. Problem: no usable PNG animation so far :-( | GIF: used to be affected by LZW84 patent, this is now expired, but still not fully free (?), obsolete, poor compression, 256 colors only. Problem: no usable PNG animation so far :-( | ||
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Please rewrite. It's '''_NOT_''' obvious at all who of them (SOM, PlayOgg, Vorbis) is the good and should be promoted and who is the evil and should be avoided ... | Please rewrite. It's '''_NOT_''' obvious at all who of them (SOM, PlayOgg, Vorbis) is the good and should be promoted and who is the evil and should be avoided ... | ||
[[User:DOS386|DOS386]] 07:32, 2 August 2007 (PDT) | |||
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AndreI wrote:
> Why aren't GIF, JPEG, and JPEG2000 on this list?
JPEG2000: highly proprietary
JPEG: proprietary (?), lossy with little benefit only, too much inappropriate usage (poor quality images)
GIF: used to be affected by LZW84 patent, this is now expired, but still not fully free (?), obsolete, poor compression, 256 colors only. Problem: no usable PNG animation so far :-(
DOS386 07:32, 2 August 2007 (PDT)
Saoshyant wrote:
> Is SOM related with PlayOgg?
> No, and if you actually want to help promote Open Media formats
> like Vorbis avoid them. Threat tactics, desinformation, and ignorancy
> do _not_ pass the message we want.
Please rewrite. It's _NOT_ obvious at all who of them (SOM, PlayOgg, Vorbis) is the good and should be promoted and who is the evil and should be avoided ...
DOS386 07:32, 2 August 2007 (PDT)