Re: OpenEXR 1.6.0 and CTL 1.4.0 released

Ken McGaugh <[email protected]> Mon, 6 Aug 2007 09:18:22 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.openexr.devel,gmane.comp.video.openexr.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 04/08/2007, at 1:14 PM, Florian Kainz wrote:
>         - Added B44A compression.  This is a variation of B44, but  
> with
>           a better compression ratio for images with large uniform  
> areas,
>           such as in an alpha channel.

Are there any disadvantages to using B44A versus B44?
Or should we just always use B44A?

Thanks for a great release.  I've been looking forward to this for a  
while.
--Ken