mkv is king.
Video, audio, subtitles, chapters - all in one file.
MKV is a container format though, but close enough I guess. 👍 I like it too.
Is .png no good?
PNG is fine. The industry likes to reinvent the wheel every few years so that you have to upgrade everything. It’s ridiculous nonsense.
I love SVGs. Vector images are interesting and seeing an image stored in readable text and still being so small is really cool to me. It’s also fun to play around with since you can plug html into it and vice versa.
Considering using jpeg xl to reduce the size of my photos archive. It can convert to and from jpeg losslessly. Haven’t actually done it yet though
geotiff
fucking fight me.
and if any one posts h5 as their favorite I’ll rip your fingernails off with a pliers.
Do you mean hdf5? I extensively used COGs (cloud optimised geotiffs) and NetCDF4 (based on hdf5) at work over the last 10 years. Both have their pros and cons.
The main limitation with geotiff is its pretty much only usable for layered 2D raster data.
NetCDF4 (hdf5) can set up frames of any dimensionality, you can have datetime axes, time series data, 100d ensemble data, etc.
Yeah. h5 is the typical industry shorthand and file extension.
The h5 saga was NASA saying “we’re going to create a file format that does EVERTHING”, and well… it does… poorly.
Everything that h5 is allegedly better for is better solved by just moving to either sql or postgres. And if the data aren’t that complex, then just send me a geotiff.
If you send me an h5 the first thing I’m doing is moving it over to sqlite or postgres.
I like svg, as it is basically an ASCII file. And i can manipulate them with sed/grep etc for bulk changes.
CIF - Compressed Image File
No particular reason, except that it’s a proprietary format I wrote myself, comparable compression to PNG, but totally different codebase and format.
TIFF 6 and MKV/FFV1v3. Both great for digital preservation.
M4V for the win.
.bmp just for the anarchy in me
Highest quality format there is and ever will be.
RAW enters the chat
Is that just straight up hexadecimal or binary code? Both are 100% uncompressed and lossless.
It is the raw data from the sensor of the camera, it has not been processed in any way yet
file formats I mostly use: SVG, PDF, PNG, JPG, TIFF, MKV, MP4
I never used it in person, but the LFP (light field picture) format used by Lytro cameras was an interesting concept—you could change the focus, depth of field, and perspective after the image was captured.
I still have a fondness for TARGA (.TGA) from back in the day…
