You may have recently noticed that devices like newer or updated iPhones and Android phones have started recording images in a format called HEIF (High Efficiency Image File) format or HEIC (High Efficiency Image Container) format rather than [...]
The multimedia community often uses format names very casually: “Open this TIFF” or “I’m sending you an Ogg file” or “We have some old DICOM images - we should buy a viewer to see them”. While this is [...]
Browsers, such as Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, have native support for some data formats. Using multimedia as an example, JPG (the original JPEG) is universally supported, and MPEG-4/H.264 is widely supported by recent generations of browsers. This means [...]
When JPEG2000 (common file extensions .jp2, .j2k, and .jpx) was first introduced, the traditional JPEG format (common file extensions .jpg and .jpeg) was the predominant format for general, everyday images. Cameras saved snapshots as JPEGs, web browsers natively [...]
What if you chose a promising format and suddenly saw the message Image from https://jpegxl.info/ This happened in 2022 to Google Chrome uses, when the Chrome team decided to discontinue native browser support of the image [...]
Even formats that superficially appear to be straightforward can contain many separate pieces of information. Let's take a look at the contents of some interesting formats. Here's a Canon CR2 file courtesy of www.rawsamples.ch. Within it there [...]
You can’t always tell what's inside a file from its extension. In this post we’ll delve into the contents of JFIF/JPEG files. JPEG is often used as a catchall term for both the encoding (whether lossy JPEG [...]
Formats age. A question is how and, perhaps even more importantly, when to migrate to newer formats. My Adobe PDF reader updated the other day, and I suddenly received this notice when opening a file: [...]
The mighty JPEG: born in 1992, it is still one of the most commonly used formats for creating photos and images. It’s also a go-to format for document generation and archiving, photo archiving, and data normalization for [...]
