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JPEG is commonly used in its lossy format, but there's lossless JPEG[1] as well. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_JPEG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
by matthuggins 10y ago
JPEG is commonly used in its lossy format, but there's lossless JPEG[1] as well.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_JPEG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossless_JPEG
- acdha 10y agoApplication support is pretty huge, though: that's what effectively turned JPEG 2000 into a niche format since the standard was patent and license encumbered for the first decade and change and the vendors didn't make interoperability a priority because they assumed the technical merits would force everyone to adopt it in the end. When you're talking about lossless, however, it's often in the context of archival storage and people get spooked after they encounter files which they have trouble opening with perfect fidelity. It's a shame since the compression technology was impressive and j2k would also have made a great progressive image format had browsers supported it.