if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?
e.g. flac for lossless audio because…
(yes you can add new categories)
summary:
- photos .jxl
- open domain image data .exr
- videos .av1
- lossless audio .flac
- lossy audio .opus
- subtitles srt/ass
- fonts .otf
- container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
- plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
- documents .odt
- archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
- configuration files toml
- typesetting typst
- interchange format .ora
- models .gltf / .glb
- daw session files .dawproject
- otdr measurement results .xml
JPEG-XL for rasterized images.
https://jpegxl.info/why-jxl.html
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GNOME introduced its support in version 45, AFAIK there isn’t a stable distro release yet that ships it.
Unfortunately, adoption has been slow and Alliance for Open Media are pushing back somewhat (especially Google[1], who leads the group) in favor of their inferior
.avif
format.https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Drops-JPEG-XL ↩︎
Never heard of that, thanks for bringing it to my attention!
How does it compare to AVIF?
AVIF is slower, has a way smaller maximum resolution and doesn’t support progressive decoding as well as lossless JPEG recompression.
Oh dam, that resolution limit is a total deal breaker. Can’t believe anyone would release a format with those limitations today…