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** [[PDF]]
** [[PDF]]


* Sound formats
* [[Music/formats|Sound formats]]
** [[Ogg]] Vorbis
** ?

* Video formats
** [[Ogg]] Theora?
** [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DV DV] format ? (/usr/lib/libdv present)


* General formats
* General formats
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* Compression formats
* Compression formats
** Uncompressed (this is listed because the JFFS2 filesystem on the OLPC will compress all compressable files)
** Uncompressed (this is listed because the JFFS2 filesystem on the OLPC will compress all compressable files)
** GNU Zip (supported by [[Python]]'s zlib module)
** GNU Zip (supported by [[Python]]'s zlib module, and by [[Etoys]])


[[Category:File formats]]
[[Category:File formats]]

Revision as of 08:39, 17 June 2008

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Introduction

Because the OLPC has limited storage and limited RAM, it is not a good idea to support every data format used on regular PCs. It makes more sense to use our PCs to convert data than to put that burden on the OLPC.

List of supported formats

  • Video formats
    • Ogg Theora?
    • DV format ? (/usr/lib/libdv present)
  • General formats
    • XML
    • SQLite (a lightweight relational database that is included in Python 2.5)
    • Gnu gdbm (supported by Python's dbm module)
    • Berkeley db version 4.3.0.1 (supported by Python's bsddb module)
  • Compression formats
    • Uncompressed (this is listed because the JFFS2 filesystem on the OLPC will compress all compressable files)
    • GNU Zip (supported by Python's zlib module, and by Etoys)
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