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What is the relevance of JFIF in this? That's the file format, JPEG is the compression scheme. Yet we refer to JPEG files not JFIF. How did it happen we care mo
by cmurf 8y ago
What is the relevance of JFIF in this? That's the file format, JPEG is the compression scheme. Yet we refer to JPEG files not JFIF. How did it happen we care more, or give more credit to the compression part?
- dmitrygr 8y agoBecause the whole point is making images smaller. The header bytes you append up front aren't particularly clever or worth a discussion.
- nneonneo 8y agoHonestly, I don’t consider JFIF to be a good format. It’s poorly extensible and requires hacks like byte stuffing to work properly. I much prefer PNG personally - it’s highly extensible via fourcc codes and doesn’t require weird hacks.
- userbinator 8y agoI'm not sure why you consider byte stuffing a "hack", because it's a great way to make the codestream self-synchronising and easily decoded by hardware. It's also used a lot in video formats, because it enables easy seeking.