#file extensions

[kawaoneechan]

You see a .bin file with an otherwise irrelevantly generic name. What is your first thought as to what it is?

Something arbitrary

Part of a bin/cue pair

Sega Genesis/Mega Drive game

Voting ended onMay 6

[yawningjorin]

The .rst extension is short for "real shit text" and means that the contents of the document are serious and important. This is in contrast to .md, which is short for "mostly drivel".

[myryzza]

Absurd Polls: Fuck Marry Kill Edition

Rules: The result with the most votes will be Fucked, the result with the median votes will be Married, and the result with the least votes will be Killed!

Fuck Marry Kill: File Extensions

.jpeg

.png

.gif

.mkv

.m4a

.wav

.mp3

.zip

.exe

.pdf

.tar.gz

.deb

Voting ended onMar 18

[lynnbecks-mainblog]

Ok so my brother recently got me a DS flashcart to replace one that I lost, and on it there's a directory called "Zz9". In this directory, there's are subfolders for Mario Kart DS, Pokémon Diamond, and Pokémon Soul Silver. This is fine, but what's weird is. This:

What is this file, and what does it do? When I look up "Valve.Source file extension" it just comes up with filetypes related to Source Engine games. Also it's worth noting that the other two subfolders don't have a Valve.Source file. Just MKDS.

(Also there were other games on the card originally, but they weren't in the folder.)

[fnrrfygmschnish]

It will always be weird to me when someone pronounces ".png" as "P. N. G." rather than just... saying "ping."

Like how pretty much every file extension that is a word, is almost a word, or is even reasonably close to something you could say like a word is pronounced.

A .jpeg/.jpg is always a "jay-peg," an .mpeg/.mpg is "em-peg" (and "em-pee-gee" will definitely make people think "miles per gallon" instead), .wav is just plain "wave," .txt is always "text" (...and if anyone says "a tee-ex-tee file" that person is definitely a robot/alien in disguise, and probably not the harmless or benevolent kind), .gif is always "gif" and you rarely hear anyone argue for "G. I. F." even when the argument over pronunciation comes up (between the vast majority who says it like "gift," and a loud minority who claims to say it like the peanut butter brand but are mostly just being contrarian on the internet aside from like... one guy) because both sides know even if only on an unconscious level that to do so would be The Wrongest Way, .doc is... well, "doc," .docx is "doc-ex," and so on.

Y'know what I hear when someone says "P. N. G.?"

Peein' G.

Urinating Gangster.

[simplificationstationus-blog]

Images  (.PNG .JPEG .GIF  .TIFF .SVG and raw images)

Introduction 

Are you a photography student? Are you doing photography on the side? Do you just want to learn about image formats? Well do i have some good news for you dear reader, this post is going to help.

PNG 

Portable Network  Graphics 

This file format was originally made for sending images over the internet. Oh good ol intenet! PNG's also using lossless compression so this means their file sizes are bigger in comparison to JPEG. The advantage to PNG's is transparency for the background. This means you can insert the image into anything that takes image files and the image will have no background.For example if you had a bench there with a white background for a JPG the white background would be there. But with a PNG the only thing that will be there will be the bench.  

JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts  Group

JPEG's save a lot of storage space due to lossy compression. Some of the pictures data is discarded. This is done by taking every 8x8 block of pixels into 64 standard patterns. The blocks with more checkerboard like pattens have some of the pixels removed therefore less data. This does mean that the images in the jpeg format are less sharp. In turn, around 10% of the data for the orignal image is taken when compressed into the jpeg format.

GIF  Graphical  Interchange  Format

GIFs use something called lossless compression. The GIF format also allows said images to be animated as seen on most social media pages to date (take a peak down at the bottom of the post, that down there is a GIF). So whats the drawback to GIF? Well they're are restricted to 256 colours only. That may sound like a lot but when you look at the common GIF you will notice that it looks grainy when coming to more complex images.

TIF  Tagged  Image Format

Tif does support compression however it also supports uncompressed images as well as many other colour spaces and other options. This makes it popular among photographers and printers.

SVG Scalable Vectors Graphics

This file type allows the resize of images without and quality lost at all! However keep in mind this fact makes file sizes bigger than the averaege common JPEG

Raw image Negative Format

This file type works sort of like old photography film does. The file isnt the image its self but it is the data to make up the image. The only problem with this is this format needs special codex to open on a image editor. However this format opens up the possibility of more editing options.

Thank you for reading this post.

[miscellaneous-snark]

You're telling me this file has been MPREGGED?

[finovohub]

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