Microsoft have announced their new image format which is a competitor to standards like JPEG and PNG.
Windows Media Photo is a new file format for continuous-tone still images that surpasses the limitations of existing image formats.
Windows Media Photo supports a wide range of features including:
Multiple color formats for display or print
Fixed or floating point high dynamic range image encoding
Lossless or high quality lossy compression
Extremely efficient decoding for multiple resolutions and sub-regions
Minimal overhead for format conversion or transformations during decode
Windows Media Photo delivers a lightweight, high performance algorithm with a small memory footprint that enables practical, in-device encoding and decoding.
News source: Microsoft
Windows Media Photo is a new file format for continuous-tone still images that surpasses the limitations of existing image formats.
Windows Media Photo supports a wide range of features including:
Multiple color formats for display or print
Fixed or floating point high dynamic range image encoding
Lossless or high quality lossy compression
Extremely efficient decoding for multiple resolutions and sub-regions
Minimal overhead for format conversion or transformations during decode
Windows Media Photo delivers a lightweight, high performance algorithm with a small memory footprint that enables practical, in-device encoding and decoding.
News source: Microsoft
Windows Media Photo License
XPS implementations of Windows Media Photo require the Windows Media Photo Device Porting Kit. Contact Microsoft at wmla@microsoft.com with XPS WMPhoto License in the Subject field to obtain the Windows Media Photo Device Porting Kit.
XPS implementations of Windows Media Photo require the Windows Media Photo Device Porting Kit. Contact Microsoft at wmla@microsoft.com with XPS WMPhoto License in the Subject field to obtain the Windows Media Photo Device Porting Kit.
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