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		<title>Jsummers: Jsummers moved page BMF to BMF (Dmitry Shkarin): Too many formats named BMF</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Jsummers moved page &lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/BMF&quot; title=&quot;BMF&quot;&gt;BMF&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/BMF_(Dmitry_Shkarin)&quot; title=&quot;BMF (Dmitry Shkarin)&quot;&gt;BMF (Dmitry Shkarin)&lt;/a&gt;: Too many formats named BMF&lt;/p&gt;
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		<title>Jsummers at 15:57, 2 December 2019</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;|released=1998&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;date&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Date of version 0.1 from http://compression.ru/ds/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;|released=1998&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;date&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Date of version 0.1 from http://compression.ru/ds/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;}}&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;−&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;'''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&lt;del class=&quot;diffchange diffchange-inline&quot;&gt;.&lt;/del&gt;&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;date&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;. It offers lossless and lossy (called &amp;quot;near-lossless&amp;quot;) compression modes. There was a &amp;quot;version 2&amp;quot; released in 2009. A cryptic remark by Shkarin that &amp;quot;BMF v.2.0 does not exist, there are only separate codecs for it&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://web.archive.org/web/20150424050022/http://encode.ru/threads/1031-bruteCM-compressor#post20041&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; 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.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;'''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&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;date&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;. It offers lossless and lossy (called &amp;quot;near-lossless&amp;quot;) compression modes. There was a &amp;quot;version 2&amp;quot; released in 2009. A cryptic remark by Shkarin that &amp;quot;BMF v.2.0 does not exist, there are only separate codecs for it&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://web.archive.org/web/20150424050022/http://encode.ru/threads/1031-bruteCM-compressor#post20041&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; 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.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;BMF was never in wide use, and is best described as a hobbyist format.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;BMF was never in wide use, and is best described as a hobbyist format.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;== Identification ==&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;BMF files apparently start with bytes {{magic|0x81 0x8a}}.&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Software ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Software ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [http://compression.ru/ds/ List of versions] (Russian)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [http://compression.ru/ds/ List of versions] (Russian)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/compress/downloads/bmf_050b.zip Version 0.50, older archive]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;* [http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/compress/downloads/bmf_050b.zip Version 0.50, older archive]&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;+&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ins style=&quot;color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;&quot;&gt;* [[XnView]] (v1.x only?)&lt;/ins&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Links ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== Links ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== References ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;== References ==&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Effect2: Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |subcat=Graphics |extensions={{ext|bmf}} |released=1998&lt;ref name=&quot;date&quot;&gt;Date of version 0.1 from http://compression.ru/ds/&lt;/ref&gt; }} '''BMF''' is an image compress...&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;{{FormatInfo |subcat=Graphics |extensions={{ext|bmf}} |released=1998&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;date&amp;quot;&amp;gt;Date of version 0.1 from http://compression.ru/ds/&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; }} &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;BMF&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; is an image compress...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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'''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.&amp;lt;ref name=&amp;quot;date&amp;quot; /&amp;gt;. It offers lossless and lossy (called &amp;quot;near-lossless&amp;quot;) compression modes. There was a &amp;quot;version 2&amp;quot; released in 2009. A cryptic remark by Shkarin that &amp;quot;BMF v.2.0 does not exist, there are only separate codecs for it&amp;quot;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;https://web.archive.org/web/20150424050022/http://encode.ru/threads/1031-bruteCM-compressor#post20041&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; 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.&lt;br /&gt;
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BMF was never in wide use, and is best described as a hobbyist format.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Software ==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://compression.ru/ds/ List of versions] (Russian)&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.manmrk.net/tutorials/compress/downloads/bmf_050b.zip Version 0.50, older archive]&lt;br /&gt;
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== Links ==&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://compression.ru/ds/ Homepage] (Russian)&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160409222033/http://encode.ru/threads/351-BMF-2-0-(Apr-29-2009) BMF 2.0 (Apr 29, 2009)]&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Wikipedia:Dmitry Shkarin]]&amp;lt;!-- I will admit that I (Effect2) do not think that he is notable enough for a Wikipedia page. --&amp;gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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== References ==&lt;br /&gt;
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