From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 12 10: 2:55 2000 From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 12 10:02:53 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from KIWI-Computer.com (kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB16437B404 for ; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 10:02:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by KIWI-Computer.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eBCI9RF67290; Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:09:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: FreeBSD Fanatic Message-Id: <200012121809.eBCI9RF67290@KIWI-Computer.com> Subject: Re: It's that time of year. GIF files. In-Reply-To: <14902.14464.409030.170937@guru.mired.org> "from Mike Meyer at Dec 12, 2000 08:38:56 am" To: Mike Meyer Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 12:09:27 -0600 (CST) Cc: Alfred Perlstein , questions@FreeBSD.ORG, cliff@raggedclown.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Tell your kid to "just say no to GIFs". I'm sure there's a better > > format out there, avi maybe? > > PNG was *designed* to replace GIFs after the patent fiasco. They threw > in a lot of other good stuff while they were at it, though. And while you're looking at PNG (which doesn't support animations), try MNG done by the same people. Not very standardized (yet) but you can use their free libraries to create your own animations. I think it's www.mng.org. --Rick C. Petty, aka Snoopy rick@kiwi-computer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message