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> I think we need a multi-image container format. It could be something that's literally a bunch of jpgs/pngs/pick your poison in a tar container You've just d
by idle_zealot 6y ago
> I think we need a multi-image container format. It could be something that's literally a bunch of jpgs/pngs/pick your poison in a tar container
You've just described the .cbt format!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book_archive https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_book_archive
- marcan_42 6y agoAnd it's a bad format, because .tar does not have an index that allows random access. It also does not have compression, unless you stick it in gzip, which makes it even worse because then you can't even skip entries, you have to decompress the whole thing from the top. .zip is better, at least that has an index, but at the end of the file, so it's not linearly streamable. For what it's worth, .pdf is structurally ~the same as .zip; the index is at the end, and blocks are compressed individually. Choice of archive format matters :-)
- Freak_NL 6y agoMost comics using this meta-format seem to use .cbr (Rar) or .cbz (Zip). The main benefit is that reader software understands the intended use of these archives, and you can link a comic book reader to these file extensions.