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by homm 1463 days ago
> MozJPEG use a lower value in the first position of the quantization just like this article suggests

It has lower value in the first position of the base table, i.e. the table which is used for q=50. With lower qualities this value scales up. This delays color banding from q=50 to roughly say q=40, after that the same effect is appears.