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
I agree.
I especially love that it addresses the biggest pitfall of the typical “fancy new format does things better than the one we’re already using” transition, in that it’s specifically engineered to make migration easier, by allowing a lossless conversion from the dominant format.
Never heard of that, thanks for bringing it to my attention!
Is this page outdated or Windows and most Linux distros do not support the format?
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
.avifformat.https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-Drops-JPEG-XL ↩︎
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…