BMF (Dmitry Shkarin)

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File Format
Name BMF (Dmitry Shkarin)
Ontology
Extension(s) .bmf
Released 1998[1]

BMF is an image compression format produced by a program of the same name, written by Dmitry Shkarin. The first version was apparently released in 1998[1]. It offers lossless and lossy (called "near-lossless") compression modes. There was a "version 2" released in 2009. A cryptic remark by Shkarin that "BMF v.2.0 does not exist, there are only separate codecs for it"[2] may indicate that version 2 is something comparable to a container format for image files; however, the format is proprietary, so this cannot be verified.

BMF was never in wide use, and is best described as a hobbyist format.

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Identification

BMF files apparently start with bytes 0x81 0x8a.

Software

Links

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Date of version 0.1 from http://compression.ru/ds/
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20150424050022/http://encode.ru/threads/1031-bruteCM-compressor#post20041
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