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jug 8 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: JPEG XL and the Pareto Front

WebP is awesome at lossless and way better than even PNG.

It's because WebP has a special encoding pipeline for lossless pictures (just like PNG) while AVIF is basically just asking a lossy encoder originally designed for video content to stop losing detail. Since it's not designed for that it's terrible for the job, taking lots of time and resources to produce a worse result.

account42 8 months ago | [–]

On the other hand, animated webp is surprisingly bad considering that the format comes from a video codec.

kllrnohj 8 months ago | [–]

> and way better than even PNG.

I mean it's kinda hard to be worse than just shoving a bitmap through zlib...

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