if you could pick a standard format for a purpose what would it be and why?
e.g. flac for lossless audio because…
(yes you can add new categories)
summary:
- photos .jxl
- open domain image data .exr
- videos .av1
- lossless audio .flac
- lossy audio .opus
- subtitles srt/ass
- fonts .otf
- container mkv (doesnt contain .jxl)
- plain text utf-8 (many also say markup but disagree on the implementation)
- documents .odt
- archive files (this one is causing a bloodbath so i picked randomly) .tar.zst
- configuration files toml
- typesetting typst
- interchange format .ora
- models .gltf / .glb
- daw session files .dawproject
- otdr measurement results .xml
This is the kind of thing i think about all the time so i have a few.
.tar.zst
.zip
andgzip
/.gz
) and does so faster..tar
), compressing (.zst
), and (if you so choose) encrypting (.gpg
),.tar.zst
follows the Unix philosophy of “Make each program do one thing well.”..tar.xz
is also very good and seems more popular (probably since it was released 6 years earlier in 2009), but, when tuned to it’s maximum compression level,.tar.zst
can achieve a compression ratio pretty close to LZMA (used by.tar.xz
and.7z
) and do it faster[1].JPEG XL
/.jxl
.jpeg
,.png
,.gif
).AV1
.mp4
) and VP9[3].OpenDocument / ODF / .odt
.odt
is simply a better standard than.docx
.https://archlinux.org/news/now-using-zstandard-instead-of-xz-for-package-compression/ ↩︎
https://tonisagrista.com/blog/2023/jpegxl-vs-avif/ ↩︎
https://engineering.fb.com/2018/04/10/video-engineering/av1-beats-x264-and-libvpx-vp9-in-practical-use-case/ ↩︎