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Also note that JPEG supported arithmetic coding for somewhat better compression, but most encoders and decoders didn't support it (do they currently?) because o

Also note that JPEG supported arithmetic coding for somewhat better compression, but most encoders and decoders didn't support it (do they currently?) because of patents that expired over the last few years.

userbinator 7y ago
The majority of software still doesn't support it. It's a chicken-and-egg problem --- almost no one uses arithmetic mode because no software supports it, and almost no software supports it because almost no one uses arithmetic mode.