More Cat photos Online: Google releases open source JPEG Algorithm

[Bleedingyamato]

6 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

I chose not to eat a 66% price hike from Comcast is why. As for how I get ahold of large files, my Intel Atom tablet is key. Though not fast, it's cheap, and lasts an entire work day on battery alone (assuming the display shuts off like it should). I connect it to the work wifi, download what I need, and tuck it away somewhere to work on it. 

 

A fan cooled device would actually be quite poor at this, as I found out before with my older laptop. I pulled it out of the bag with the fan screaming. 

I'm guessing there either are no other providers in your area or they are using similarly bs pricing?

 

 

Yeah..  I wouldn't put a laptop in a bag while it's running.  That's probably about as bad as me putting my first laptop on a cushy sleeping bag for a few months after I got it.  Found out later I had messed up the thermal compound on the cpu and/or gpu which was causing my laptop to overheat and turn itself off to protect from damage. 

 

How would you do that anyway?  If you close the lid to put the laptop in the bag wouldn't it go to sleep? 

[8uhbbhu8]

12 minutes ago, Zodiark1593 said:

I chose not to eat a 66% price hike from Comcast is why. As for how I get ahold of large files, my Intel Atom tablet is key. Though not fast, it's cheap, and lasts an entire work day on battery alone (assuming the display shuts off like it should). I connect it to the work wifi, download what I need, and tuck it away somewhere to work on it. 

 

A fan cooled device would actually be quite poor at this, as I found out before with my older laptop. I pulled it out of the bag with the fan screaming one day.   

 

Home Internet browsing is my biggest consumer of bandwidth on my data plan, and chews through the data in a hurry if I leave images enabled. 

haha I put my old Thinkpad SL400 in my bag running all the time  It gets warmer yes but it almost never gets hot

[Zodiark1593]

32 minutes ago, Bleedingyamato said:

I'm guessing there either are no other providers in your area or they are using similarly bs pricing?

 

 

Yeah..  I wouldn't put a laptop in a bag while it's running.  That's probably about as bad as me putting my first laptop on a cushy sleeping bag for a few months after I got it.  Found out later I had messed up the thermal compound on the cpu and/or gpu which was causing my laptop to overheat and turn itself off to protect from damage. 

 

How would you do that anyway?  If you close the lid to put the laptop in the bag wouldn't it go to sleep? 

You can choose what the laptop does when you close the lid. Like I said though, an Atom tablet is virtually ideal for downloading stuff while stuck in a bag. Very little heat output, no fan, and good battery life. You just need a power preset to shut off the display, and not have the device sleep. 

 

32 minutes ago, 8uhbbhu8 said:

haha I put my old Thinkpad SL400 in my bag running all the time  It gets warmer yes but it almost never gets hot

My laptop has a fairly hot chip in the i5-560M. 3.0+ GHz in a mobile form factor gets pretty hungry, and that appetite turns to heat. It holds up reasonably well in many of today's tasks, even today, the laptop is still in service, albeit, with an SSD. 

[Bleedingyamato]

2 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

You can choose what the laptop does when you close the lid. Like I said though, an Atom tablet is virtually ideal for downloading stuff while stuck in a bag. Very little heat output, no fan, and good battery life. You just need a power preset to shut off the display, and not have the device sleep. 

Ah.  I never thought to change that behavior.  ?

 

Would've been nice for in some situations.  Oh well too late now.  ? 

[HelplmChoking]

.PNG for life

[laminutederire]

11 hours ago, Zodiark1593 said:

MPC-HC does seem to be the more optimized of the two, and better supports hardware decode (VLC does not yet support hardware decode of HEVC). In addition, tinkering produces excellent results. Though, I find it difficult to find a combination of settings that works well across most videos, at least, without MadVR. MadVR can greatly enhance the quality of even sub-par source files, at the expense of requiring heavy GPU compute. 

 

VLC I find leans heavily on the CPU for much of it's enhancements beyond decode. I find it much easier to come up with a good, general purpose setting that works acceptably across all videos. Also had not seen an update for awhile. 

 

Really, no matter which you choose, it's hard to go wrong with either. I keep both around tbh. 

That's because vlc was a student project 20 years ago

[Syntaxvgm]

18 hours ago, LAwLz said:

Nice, but I'd rather they created a new format instead of trying to polish a turd.

 

 

I blame Microsoft. They were not interested in supporting WebP so as soon as some websites such as Facebook changed over, people with IE and Windows photo viewer ran into a ton of issues.

We need all companies to be on board if we want a new format to succeed. It can't just be Google.

 

 

Because PNG is not a be-all-end-all format. PNG is absolutely atrocious for certain kinds of images.

Here is a photo of my dog saved as jpeg and PNG. Both have the exact same quality (because the master is the jpeg image).

 

The file size almost quadrupled for 0 increase in quality.

 

You should only use PNG in a few instances.

1) When your image contains large spaces of solid colors. I am not talking like a blue sky either. I am talking the exact same hex code for the color. Like what you get with the bucket tool in paint.

2) If you got lots of fine lines with perfect curves, like in a lot of vector art.

3) When you got medium to small size text in the image which you want to be readable.

4) Image that contains gradient which you want to keep as high quality as possible.

5) When you need transparency.

6) If you want your image to be lossless.

 

 

Optimizing the PNG compression won't help much, and it eats up quite a lot of computational resources.

You're trying to screw in a screw using a hammer... PNG was meant for specific types of images, and using it for other types of images is just a really bad idea.

 

 

If we're going to be pedantic, PNG can quite often produce files which are smaller than jpeg.

Just create a 1000x500 picture in paint and fill half of it in one color, and half of it in another color. Save it as PNG and JPEG. The jpeg PNG version will not only be significantly smaller (like 1/2 the size) but it will also be higher quality.

Or you could just use a single color, in which case the PNG will have an even bigger lead.

nah get bigger hard drive and better internet brah. 

 

I have some high resolution pngs that are in excess of 250MB and a high quality jpg version is like 30MB. 

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On 3/18/2017 at 10:21 AM, Syntaxvgm said:

nah get bigger hard drive and better internet brah. 

 

I have some high resolution pngs that are in excess of 250MB and a high quality jpg version is like 30MB. 

I have some high resolution files that can't even be comprehended by PNG or JPG so I have to use Photoshop's proprietary PSB format.  Luckily it features lossless compression like PNG, but they still often end up over a GB.

[Ezio Auditore]

On 3/18/2017 at 5:19 AM, LAwLz said:

Damn you're right.

Finally somebody with the correct use of you're

[Zodiark1593]

12 hours ago, Ezio Auditore said:

Finally somebody with the correct use of you're

Finally? Apparently, your eyes need checking. Or perhaps, you're intentionally omitting the posts presented by myself.