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Story: Microsoft's JPEG alternative: WIMP?
Posted by: Anonymous (Thursday 25 May 2006, 1:15 PM)
"Microsoft's new image format allows such things as rotating the image without the need to decode it and subsequently encode it again"
This is also true of the JPEG format. The jpegtran utility can do lossless rotating any JPEG image in steps of 90 degrees. There are several Windows applications that use jpegtran internally to offer this functionality.
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The compression ratio is irrelevant if the picture... Chris Rankin
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"Microsoft's new image format allows such thi... Anonymous -
MS trotted out the same argumnents for WMA vs MP3:... Fred Nurk
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