Separate file format from compression scheme

[jmi2k]

I find the compression scheme itself kinda interesting, regardless of the header format. Separating it from the file format might encourage people to take this simple but quite OK scheme (pun intended) and use it on its own for their specific use cases.

It's not like anything will change, but I believe being precise with the definition (separating two different things: the compression scheme vs. the file format) is a right idea.

[nektro]

I mean the compression here is very tied to images. you're certainly welcome to take the concept and apply it to something else though

[jmi2k]

yeah it's very tied to image data (RGB/RGBA data) but the pixel data encoding is independent from whatever header format QOI ends up with. The same that BMP contains RLE-encoded data, QOI contains data encoded with a custom algorithm. I just want to name that custom algorithm.