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by mrpf1ster 11 hours ago
I hope the image and audio bandwidth savings are more than the cost of having to send down the codec JS payload - might be worth it for a web app with a lot of image/audio loading
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With a 17kb jbig2 decoder all you need is a few one-bit images (a page of a book scan) for it to save bandwidth.

With a 60kb codec2 decoder you need about 2 minutes of audio to start saving.

But the target is dictionary apps with thousands of seconds of audio and thousands of images.