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if you could standardise a file format for a specific task what would you pick and why (lemmy.ml)

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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

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[–] Supermariofan67 48 points 1 year ago (40 children)

Ogg Opus for all lossy audio compression (mp3 needs to die)

7z or tar.zst for general purpose compression (zip and rar need to die)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How about tar.gz? How does gzip compare to zstd?

[–] Supermariofan67 5 points 1 year ago

Both slower and worse at compression at all its levels.

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