[U-Boot-Users] [RFC] Splash image

[Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 10:31:25AM -0400, Jerry Van Baren wrote:
>
> FWIIW, I took a screenshot, saved it as a 16 bit BMP, then converted the 
> BMP as a GIF, JPEG, and a PNG.  While very unscientific, this says BMP with 
> gzip is a winner for two reasons:
> 1) It is similar in compression ratios to PNG and GIF
> 2) We already know how to gunzip and BMP.
>
> Benchmark:
> 495410 screenshot-16.bmp
>
>  25411 screenshot-16.bmp.gz
>  25875 screenshot-16.PNG
>  37727 screenshot-16.GIF
> 148854 screenshot-16.JPG
>
> (Trivia: I did JPEG because it was there.  It is generally a poor choice 
> for splash screens because it has artifacts on sharp transitions, which 
> splash screens tend to have.)

This seems good! :)

Rodolfo

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