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by pnako 2326 days ago
JPEG XL is either lossy compression for large pictures, or something named by people who suck at branding.
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andrewzah 2326 days ago
Made by the same folks who brought you JPEG 2000. /s
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pmarreck 2326 days ago
I was a fan/proponent of that! Whatever happened to wavelet compression?
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loeg 2326 days ago
Patents.
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ksec 2325 days ago
Most of them had expired. Wavelet is something that looks good in theory but in practice couldn't beat the millions man hours work put into standard DCT.
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Double_a_92 2326 days ago
And AVIF was that weird video format before mp4 became common everywere, right? /s
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