{"id":155,"date":"2011-01-07T20:25:17","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T01:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=155"},"modified":"2012-12-05T00:51:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:51:38","slug":"whats-digital-broadcasting-got-to-do-with-animated-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2011\/01\/07\/whats-digital-broadcasting-got-to-do-with-animated-images\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s digital broadcasting got to do with animated images?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>just <a href=\"https:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/masters\/2011\/01\/07\/dissertation-submitted-acknowledgements\/\">finished my master&#8217;s<\/a> so I&#8217;m allowed to quote Wikipedia again :)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2008 <a title=\"WorldDMB\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/WorldDMB\">WorldDMB<\/a> adopted APNG as a backward compatible extension to enable animation as part of the MOT SlideShow user application for Digital Radio. &#8220;APNG 1.0 Specification &#8211; Animated Portable Network Graphics&#8221; is included as normative Annex A in the <a title=\"European Telecommunications Standards Institute\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/European_Telecommunications_Standards_Institute\">ETSI<\/a> standard TS 101 499 V2.2.1 (2008-07). In 2010 Commercial Radio Broadcasters in Sydney began to include APNG animations in DAB+ digital radio broadcasts. These APNG animations are carried by the &#8220;MOT slideshow&#8221; application which accompanies the audio services. It is expected that other cities in Australia will follow in early 2011<sup>.<\/sup><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s noteworthy because as far as I know they are the first real users of APNG. Mozilla has been using it for a long time and there are several decent applications that work with APNGs, but there has not to date been a solid creator of Animated PNGs.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what a DAB+ digital radio broadcast is (and I don&#8217;t really care), but this is really cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>just finished my master&#8217;s so I&#8217;m allowed to quote Wikipedia again :) In 2008 WorldDMB adopted APNG as a backward compatible extension to enable animation as part of the MOT SlideShow user application for Digital Radio. &#8220;APNG 1.0 Specification &#8211; Animated Portable Network Graphics&#8221; is included as normative Annex A in the ETSI standard TS &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-155","6":"format-standard","7":"category-opensource","8":"category-safeforseneca"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}