In article <40348604@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   JPEG2000 is the next version of JPEG (and certainly better), even though
> I don't know if you can call it a "different format from JPEG"...

It is really much different.  the formats only really have the name in
common.

>   Does anyone have any idea why JPEG2000 has not widespread even though
> it's so much better than JPEG? I have always wondered this and found it
> a big pitty.

The compression algorithm is far more complex.  And I am not even sure there
is a license free way to use it.  Either way, there is no good, portable
library to read/write it yet.  The IJG JPEG library is kind of a "standard"
for JPEG on the other hand.

    Thorsten

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