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More data storage-efficient image formats

Open orchetect opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

One issue I'm observing is that generated thumbnails (still or animated) can occupy quite a lot of disk space, especially if markers number in the dozens or hundreds. This can represent hundreds of MB or possibly more than a 1 GB. There are some existing options in MarkersExtractor to reduce frame size and quality, but not a ton of options.

Currently we support two still image types (png, jpg) and one animated image type (gif).

  • PNG and GIF are very inefficient in terns of data storage and offer little or no parameters to reduce quality or compress in order to save disk space.
  • JPG does have a quality parameter and is very versatile, which is good.

It might be worth adding WebP/WebM and HEIC as export options, which are more modern and have more options for compression. Both support stills and animated sequences. The question is: how compatible are they with the profile platforms we're targeting? (Notion, Airtable, etc.) That would dictate how much utility we'd get out of adding these formats.

orchetect avatar Mar 22 '23 03:03 orchetect