Xvid the image format?

[dbzgundam]

A friend of mine asked (and I'm curious as well) if Xvid be modified (that would be one helluva mod) to be an image file format... To replace the ageing JPEG format perhaps. The possibilities would seem quite nice since it's a much newer compression format.

Sure this would take lots of effort (if it can even be done) but it would be nice for image storage!

[Human_USB]

why not use the many opensorce image file out there like png or jng or jpg2000 or mng.

[dbzgundam]

Yeah I know but Xvid would just seem like an interesting idea.

[sysKin]

A single keyframe is an image...
Just try it. Convert your image to uncompressed PGM (don't ask me how) and use xvid_encraw to compress it to an .m4v stream. Done, this m4v file is your image.

You can use xvid_decraw to convert it back.

Radek