4 posts tagged “format”
Here are some of my favorite FSF campains some of which i only discovered today !
- BIOS http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/free-bios.html
- GNASH (SWF player) http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/
- Audio File Format http://www.fsf.org/resources/formats/playogg
- PDF http://gnupdf.org/
- DRM http://defectivebydesign.org/
- DRM http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/drm.html
- Dot GNU http://www.gnu.org/software/dotgnu/
OpenRAW want "camera manufacturers to publicly document their RAW image formats — past, present, and future. The goal of OpenRAW is to encourage image preservation and give creative choice of how images are processed to the creators of the images. To this end, we advocate open documentation of information about the how the raw data is stored and the camera settings selected by the photographer."
http://www.cybercom.net/~dcoffin/dcraw
There IS an ANSI C program that attempts to decode any raw image from any digital camera on any computer running any operating system.That program is called dcraw (pronounced "dee-see-raw"), and it's become a standard tool within and without the Open Source world. It's small (about 8000 lines), portable (standard C libraries only), free (both "gratis" and "libre"), and when used skillfully, produces better quality output than the tools provided by the camera vendor.
OpenDocument Format (ISO/IEC ODF) which is used by Sun OpenOffice.org
http://www.odfalliance.org/
IS NOT THE SAME AS
Office Open XML (EMCA OOXML) which is used by MS Office
The British Standards Institute, which represents the UK with the
International Standards Organisation, has issued what is called a "contradiction" to Microsoft's specification.
See also
OOXML Fact Sheet
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070131184453743
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20070206145620473
You are spoilt for choice (if you include free and non-free formats).
First there is a choice of Multimedia Players:
- gstreamer
- gxine
- helix
- mplayer
- totum
- xine
- xmms
and finally codecs: