Show HN: Taucoder – A Better JPEG Encoder

[vidu-taucoder]

Hello, HN!

I'm Vidu, a fullstack dev with extensive past experience in image and video coding. I wrote Taucoder, an image encoding service, in my spare time for fun and possibly some profit? At the core of taucoder is a novel encoder that outperforms state-of-the art JPEG encoders by an average 10-18% VMAF BD-rate (see evaluation: https://taucoder.com/doc/evaluation.html)

Thank you for your feedback. I'm in GMT+11 so might not reply immediately.

[breck]

Interesting problem space, but I wish you threw people right into a usable tool.

It reminds me of this site, which someone posted to ShowHN a few weeks ago: https://www.converay.com/

I've been using that site regularly ever since b/c he just threw me right into it!

My user test: https://www.loom.com/share/31a9cc02a23447c6889ba8e01f89b344?...

[vidu-taucoder]

interesting. I was originally targeting devs (with an API and golang/python CLI tools on GitHub), but I think you make a good point

[kurtextrem]

How does it compare to jpegli?

[vidu-taucoder]

tau-coder produces about 10% smaller output for the same VMAF quality, compared to jpegli. The above evaluation link contains evaluation directly against jpegli

[nikih91]

Bonjour