tinf
qoir
| tinf | qoir | |
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| 3 | 3 | |
| 142 | 94 | |
| - | - | |
| 10.0 | 0.7 | |
| over 1 year ago | about 1 year ago | |
| C | C | |
| zlib License | Apache License 2.0 |
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tinf
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Hello, PNG
CRC is a table and 5 lines of code. That's trivial.
>zlib is 23k lines
It's not needed to make a PNG reader/writer. zlib is massive overkill for only making a PNG reader or writer. Here's a tiny deflate/inflate code [2] under 1k lines (and could be much smaller if needed).
stb[0] has single headers of ~7k lines total including all of the formats PNG, JPG, BMP,. PSD, GIF, HDR, and PIC. Here's [1] a 3k lines single file PNG version with tons if #ifdefs for all sorts of platforms. Removing those and I'd not be surprised if you could not do it in ~1k lines (which I'd consider quite simple compared to most of todays' media formats).
>Of course they're not common formats so you're stuck with complex formats like PNG
BMP is super common and easy to use anywhere.
I use flat image files all the time for quick and dirty stuff. They quickly saturate disk speeds and networking speeds (say recording a few decent speed cameras), and I've found PNG compression to alleviate those saturate CPU speeds (some libs are super slow, some are vastly faster). I've many times made custom compression formats to balance these for high performance tools when neither things like BMPs or things like PNG would suffice.
[0] https://github.com/nothings/stb
[1] https://github.com/richgel999/fpng/blob/main/src/fpng.cpp
[2] https://github.com/jibsen/tinf/tree/master/src
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EzGz - An easy to use single header no dependency library for decompression of .gz archives written in modern C++ (probably faster than zlib)
Right now I'm using a C library (https://github.com/jibsen/tinf) due to size constraints. Adding a few hundred kB is prohibitive in that space.
qoir
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The Near-Lossless Image Formats Using Ultra-Fast LZ Codecs
It's important to notice that ZPNG beats virtually all QOI variants, as discovered in: https://github.com/nigeltao/qoir
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Hello, PNG
But most platforms these days have some form of CRC32 "acceleration". Adler32 is easy to compute so I'm even less concerned there.
I spent a bunch of time optimising the code in [fpnge](https://github.com/veluca93/fpnge), which is [often notably faster than fpng](https://github.com/nigeltao/qoir/blob/5671f584dcf84ddb71e28d...), yet checksum time is basically negligible.
Having said that, the double-checksum aspect of PNG does feel unnecessary.
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Quite OK Image is now my favorite asset format
* AFAIK it does this while beating the original QOI in terms of speed AND efficiency
Lots of benchmarks in: https://github.com/nigeltao/qoir
QOIX
QOIX is my very own version that adds:
What are some alternatives?
Stm32-FatFs-Gzip - This project offers a simplified compressor that produces Gzip-compatible output with small resources for microcontrollers and edge computers. He uses the very basic LZ77 compression algorithm and static Deflate Huffman tree encoding to compress / decompress data into Gzip files.
CompactGUI - Transparently compress active games and programs using Windows 10/11 APIs
figlet-fonts - my collection of figlet / toilet ascii art fonts
qoipond - Lossless image format inspired by QOI “Quite OK Image” format
canvas_ity - A tiny, single-header <canvas>-like 2D rasterizer for C++
fpng - Super fast C++ .PNG writer/reader
libpng - LIBPNG: Portable Network Graphics support, official libpng repository
fpnge - Demo of a fast PNG encoder.
UNITS - a compile-time, header-only, dimensional analysis and unit conversion library built on c++14 with no dependencies.
Zpng - Better lossless compression than PNG with a simpler algorithm