[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: New remove-logo filter

[Alexander Strasser]

Trent Piepho wrote ( On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 06:39:32PM -0800 ):
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2005, Reimar Döffinger wrote:
> > 
> > ppm for color + pgm for alpha. And yes, it is possible to create this
> > with gimp (or in the worst case with tifftopnm), the other way round
> 
> Automatically with the gimp?  My gimp doesn't have that option.  I guess you
> have to extract the alpha somehow and save it separately, I'm not a gimp
> expert.
> 
> I know as a user I'd rather deal with one compressed png image for each bug
> than multiple different format uncompressed images.  Keep in mind, ATSC is up
> to 1920x1080 resolution.  It seems that with ppm+pgm files, you're only making
> the code a little simpler if at all, but have something that's less useful to
> use.

IMHO png alone is not acceptable.
As long as there is no common image loading facility provided by mplayer it is
best to use simple formats like ppm/pgm or tga.

  Alex (beastd)