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padoor
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more contrast more current in crt . so more power if black screen when switched on.
more contrast need more current. tending to black =more contrast
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| You should work on your screenshots, that jpeg is ugly and distorted as sin :p |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:12 pm Post subject: |
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| ph030 wrote: | | You should work on your screenshots, that jpeg is ugly and distorted as sin :p |
blame "hardcopy". 
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Mh, hardcopy? Ain't that a win32-app? If so, blame yourself 
Seriously, I hope jpeg dies, with the right settings, png can even have smaller filesizes and still look better. |
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Sadako
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| Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2009 12:42 pm Post subject: |
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| ph030 wrote: | Mh, hardcopy? Ain't that a win32-app? If so, blame yourself
Seriously, I hope jpeg dies, with the right settings, png can even have smaller filesizes and still look better. |
jpeg still has it's uses, but for screenshots it's ridiculous.
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poly_poly-man
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| Hopeless wrote: | | ph030 wrote: | Mh, hardcopy? Ain't that a win32-app? If so, blame yourself
Seriously, I hope jpeg dies, with the right settings, png can even have smaller filesizes and still look better. |
jpeg still has it's uses, but for screenshots it's ridiculous. |
just like mp3, right?
mp3 still has it's uses...
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avx
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Of course, mp3 is a selling-argument. Converting to another format without loosing quality is possible, but not that easy. On the other hand, jpegs are mostly used for newly created content, so for private use, switching is easy.
Heck, you could also name .avi, useless too, mkv and mp4 exist. bash, no, there's zsh, firefox, uh ... offending the bash'ers is enough for today, tomorrow, firef*ckers |
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poly_poly-man
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I'm saying that mp3 is a bad compressed audio format, whereas vorbis is a good compressed audio format (like jpeg - bad, and png - good).
btw, avi is not a video format... it is a container.
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transacid
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| you can't say this in general jpg is really good on let's say photos taken with a camera. png is good for screenshots. audio compression is mainly a religious thing. mp3 is still good but obviously ogg has the better compression. unfortunately not much hardware players support ogg yet (at least not mine). |
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Sadako
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| poly_poly-man wrote: | | I'm saying that mp3 is a bad compressed audio format, whereas vorbis is a good compressed audio format (like jpeg - bad, and png - good). |
For bitrates of 160 kbps or greater, isn't the quality of mp3 and vorbis more or less the same?
Vorbis is always touted as superior with lower bitrates, ie 128 kbps or less.
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| bunder wrote: | mmm, dark. usually not my cup of tea.
i've been working on a black phpbb theme. 
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well, with a tft a 'blank' black screen uses the most energy  |
really? i would have thought it would be the opposite.
well, i'm not changing now.  |
yes, really. Reason:
with tft the light is always on and using power. No matter which colour is displayed.
White needs the least power because all cells are 'off' letting the light pass.
Black need the most power because all cells are on to block the light.
(eception: tft in standby, because backlight is off)
crt is different, they use the least power when black (electron beam off) and the most when all white (elecron beam touching all pixels).
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avx
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| poly_poly-man wrote: | | btw, avi is not a video format... it is a container. |
Haven't stated anything else, that's why I mentioned mp4 and mkv as way superior alternatives.
Vorbis, well, technically it's superior to mp3, but the funny thing is, if I'm not mistaken, there are more mobile-players out there which do flac then vorbis. If size is important, I can live with mp3, if not, I go flac all the way. |
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Zepp
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| Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 3:33 am Post subject: |
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| poly_poly-man wrote: | I'm saying that mp3 is a bad compressed audio format, whereas vorbis is a good compressed audio format (like jpeg - bad, and png - good).
btw, avi is not a video format... it is a container. |
jpeg and png are both widely supported, where as ogg vorbis is only used by freedom software fan boys. |
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poly_poly-man
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| Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:02 am Post subject: |
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| Zepp wrote: | | poly_poly-man wrote: | I'm saying that mp3 is a bad compressed audio format, whereas vorbis is a good compressed audio format (like jpeg - bad, and png - good).
btw, avi is not a video format... it is a container. |
jpeg and png are both widely supported, where as ogg vorbis is only used by freedom software fan boys. |
actually, it's supported all over the place - tons of portable stuff supports it.
I only use it to go on my phone, where SD space is relatively tight.
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energyman76b
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even ut2004 uses ogg - no licence fees.
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Leon_UK
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Got bored of my E17 so stumbled back to good ol' fluxbox
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Zepp
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| poly_poly-man wrote: | | Zepp wrote: | | poly_poly-man wrote: | I'm saying that mp3 is a bad compressed audio format, whereas vorbis is a good compressed audio format (like jpeg - bad, and png - good).
btw, avi is not a video format... it is a container. |
jpeg and png are both widely supported, where as ogg vorbis is only used by freedom software fan boys. |
actually, it's supported all over the place - tons of portable stuff supports it.
I only use it to go on my phone, where SD space is relatively tight. |
I am pretty sure all of the top selling portable music players don't support ogg. Nor do several of the most used media playing apps. PNG and JPEG viewing is supported by every major browser as well as most graphic viewing apps. |
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