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The information is there (sometimes... it's amazing how many times you have to make a "reasonable" guess when decoding images/video because metadata is missing)

The information is there (sometimes... it's amazing how many times you have to make a "reasonable" guess when decoding images/video because metadata is missing). Passing it along is feasible. But it does complicate things (especially the implementation) pretty quickly. A lot of Y'CbCr -> RGB converters actually disagree with each other. They're all close enough that casual users don't notice or care about the small discrepancies.

bombcar 5y ago
I believe there was a HN post about greens being different in different browsers just recently.
- lstamour 5y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27293266 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27293266 Again about what to do when missing or conflicted metadata is available. :)