BMF (Dmitry Shkarin)

Latest revision as of 14:11, 3 December 2019

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.

[edit] Identification

BMF files apparently start with bytes 0x81 0x8a.

[edit] Software

• List of versions (Russian)
• Version 0.50, older archive
• XnView (v1.x only?)

[edit] Links

• Homepage (Russian)
• BMF 2.0 (Apr 29, 2009)
• Wikipedia:Dmitry Shkarin

[edit] 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