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WebP – this is a new image file format, which provides the ability to compress both lossless and lossy. Image format WebP, lossless compression, have a size of 26% less than PNG. Image format WebP lossy have the size to 25-34% smaller than JPEG for equal values ​​of SSIM. WebP also supports transparency (alpha channel), animation, color profiles and metadata (XMP / EXIF). WebP and WebM formats promoted as web standards by Google as part of an initiative to reduce the world’s Internet traffic and improve the quality of Internet-based technologies. WebP and WebM is based on the codec VP8, developed by On2 Technologies, later purchased by Google. (more…)

It was updated branch R313 proprietary video drivers NVIDIA. The new version of the number 313.18 is declared stable. It supports the work with the latest versions of the Linux kernel and graphical X-server. The driver software is available for other UNIX-like OS.

Further changes:

DirectFB Integrated Media GmbH demonstrated in a video their graphics middleware in the upcoming version 1.7.0 on a Linux computer system for motor vehicles.

The video shows navigation system, car dashboard, audio and video player, web browser and simple games on the ARM system-on-chip R-CarH1 Renesas. The display has a resolution of 1024×768 pixels.

The new version of the platform for computing on graphics accelerators NVIDIA CUDA 5.0.

New features:

• Dynamic parallelism. Computational threads can dynamically generate new ones.
• Library to GPUs. The new library CUDA BLAS allows the use of dynamic parallelism of third-party libraries.
• GPUDirect - direct communication between GPUs via the PCI-E, including direct access to memory.

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A new version of the graphics library Clutter, is used for GUI in project Gnome 3. API and ABI new version is backward compatible with previous versions of the library.

Innovations:

• ClutterScrollActor: Support the viewing area with scrolling to display content larger than the viewing area.
• ClutterTransitionGroup and ClutterKeyframeTransition: two sub-groups for the organization and the transition between key frames in accordance with API animation ClutterActor.

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It was updated the stable branch of proprietary drivers for video cards Nvidia. Issue number for 304.51 includes the following changes:

• provided support for the following cards: GeForce GTX 660, GTX 650, GT 645M, GTX 670MX, GTX 675MX;
• Added support for the new card Quadro Sync for video processors Quadro, built on the basis of architecture Kepler;
• Fixed a bug with the fall of X-Server version 1.13, if the latter was compiled without support for DRI2;

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The new version of Picture Manager Digikam. The list of bug fixes can be found here .

This latest version of the branches 2.h.h. The next version will be 3.0, which users will find many new features that are implemented in the framework of GSoC2012: video slideshow generator, a new interface for working with the camera, an improved face detection, integration with Photivo, plug UPnP / DLNA, metadata support for video, and porting libkipi kipi-plugins for KDE XML-GUI. In turn, the KDE team promises a new batch of improvements and features, including a plug-in wallpaper, auto noise reduction, the parallel execution of tasks in Batch Queue Manager and so on.
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WebP – this is a new image file format, which provides the ability to compress both lossless and lossy. Image format WebP, lossless compression, have a size of 28% less than PNG. Image format WebP lossy have the size to 25-34% smaller than JPEG for equal values of SSIM. WebP also supports transparency (alpha channel). WebP and WebM formats promoted as web standards by Google as part of an initiative to reduce the world’s Internet traffic and improve the quality of Internet technologies. WebP and WebM is based on the codec VP8, developed by On2 Technologies, later purchased by Google.
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Kapp 20 years after the release of OpenGL 1.0 has been published since 2006 for the development of license-free design to counter the new Direct3D responsible Khronos Group Version 4.3 of the OpenGL graphics API.

The development of the original Silicon Graphics (SGI), designed by platform and programming language independent APIs for creating 2D and 3D computer graphics, OpenGL is since version 2.1 in the hands of the Khronos Group , although the OpenGL standard from 1992 now also belonging to the Khronos Group OpenGL ARB set (Architecture Review Board) is composed of the most renowned hardware and graphics card manufacturer. Microsoft has only founding member left the ARB 2003rd.
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Magic Lantern - an alternative firmware for SLR Canon. Originally developed to obtain more control over the process of shooting video, and today it contains a number of features and interesting photographers.

The new version brings a lot of improvements in functionality and stability. According to the developers, the project grew out of the category of “hack” and can now be considered a full-fledged professional tool. Major changes (and differences from the standard Canon’ovskoy firmware): (more…)