Re: [dev] [farbfeld] version 1 release

2016-01-07 Thread Marcel Rodrigues
Last time I wanted to create some animations the API of both libvpx and ffmpeg looked so unfriendly (too much boilerplate required and too little documentation/examples provided) that I ended up writing a GIF encoder from scratch [0]. GIFs have some serious limitations, such as the 256 color limit

Re: [dev] [farbfeld] version 1 release

2016-01-06 Thread FRIGN
On Wed, 6 Jan 2016 11:55:26 -0800 "Leander S. Harding" wrote: > Modest proposal: let us define an animated-farbfeld format as a > tarball of sequentially-name farbfeld files, perhaps with a metadata > file containing frame times and looping information. To be honest, I am kind of on the webm-ban

Re: [dev] [farbfeld] version 1 release

2016-01-06 Thread Calvin Morrison
On 6 January 2016 at 15:14, Ben Woolley wrote: > I know the proposal is "modest", but the timing can be represented in file > names that are microseconds from start, with an optional dash followed by the > microsecond to jump to (for looping). > > The main issue with this is that all file names

Re: [dev] [farbfeld] version 1 release

2016-01-06 Thread Ben Woolley
I know the proposal is "modest", but the timing can be represented in file names that are microseconds from start, with an optional dash followed by the microsecond to jump to (for looping). The main issue with this is that all file names would need to be read to project the effective time wit

Re: [dev] [farbfeld] version 1 release

2016-01-06 Thread Kamil CholewiƄski
On Wed, 06 Jan 2016, "Leander S. Harding" wrote: > On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:45 AM, FRIGN wrote: >> Hello fellow hackers, >> >> I'm pleased to announce version 1 of farbfeld[0]... > > Modest proposal: let us define an animated-farbfeld format as a > tarball of sequentially-name farbfeld files, pe

Re: [dev] [farbfeld] version 1 release

2016-01-06 Thread Leander S. Harding
On Wed, Jan 6, 2016 at 10:45 AM, FRIGN wrote: > Hello fellow hackers, > > I'm pleased to announce version 1 of farbfeld[0]... Modest proposal: let us define an animated-farbfeld format as a tarball of sequentially-name farbfeld files, perhaps with a metadata file containing frame times and loopin

Re: [dev] [farbfeld] version 1 release

2016-01-06 Thread Troels Henriksen
FRIGN writes: > | [] | 4*16-Bit BE unsigned integers [RGBA] / pixel, row-aligned | Do you mean row-major, or does row-aligned mean something more subtle? -- \ Troels /\ Henriksen

[dev] [farbfeld] version 1 release

2016-01-06 Thread FRIGN
Hello fellow hackers, I'm pleased to announce version 1 of farbfeld[0]. Those of you subscribed to hackers@ have already seen the ramped up activity in the last few days and I'm glad to have had the time to finally bring the codebase forward to something stable and consistent. Farbfeld is a very