Re: Microsoft shows off JPEG rival



Pete Fraser wrote:

"In his presentation, Crow showed an image with 24:1 compression that
visibly contained more detail in the Windows Media Photo format than
the JPEG and JPEG 2000 formats compressed at the same level."


Info:
http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/wmphoto.mspx


I downloaded the spec, but it's a file format spec.
There is very little detail on the codec.

Anyone have codec details?

Not really, that's the problem with proprietry software. AFAIK, it's some window'ed DFT transformation behind the scenes, but that's about what I know.

So long,
Thomas
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