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by lifthrasiir 1461 days ago
The original JPEG, retroactively named JPEG1, totally lacked loop filters and the quantization factor of DC coefficient matters much more than modern formats. As an example, libjpeg q89 is noticably worse than q90 because the DC quantization factor changes from 3 to 4 (smaller factor means less quantization thus higher quality), quite a big jump.