Re: mng_display_gotime() and large files

On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 09:49:46AM +0200, Gerard Juyn wrote:

> Well, me and others. But in reality, you're not going to replace the OGG-video 
> with MNG now are you? Although MNG can do large-scale video, it really isn't 
> suited as the compression-ratio is far less than real video-formats, even 
> using JNG and/or delta-PNG's. It'll work fine for sub-titling and perhaps 
> cartoon-video's (with a limited number of colors), but in all other cases it 
> would seem like a waste of space. 

Not replace no, but where quality is more important than bitrate it's a
fine option. It does beat mjpeg in an avi or a directory full of tiff files. :)

Also, for talking head sorts of scenes, I imagine there's
a lot that can be done with mng's animation features to save on bitrate.


Cheers,
 -r

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