4 ms·
> Tiff is good Mind that TIFF is only a container format that can contain any arbitrary codec you like; it can be uncompressed pixels, RLE compressed, it can b
by chungy 4y ago
> Tiff is good
Mind that TIFF is only a container format that can contain any arbitrary codec you like; it can be uncompressed pixels, RLE compressed, it can be a PNG, a JPEG XL, even lossy JPEG or WebP if you'd like.
Saying your image format is TIFF is roughly as useful and conveys as much information as saying your video format is MKV.
- Melatonic 4y agoUsually with TIFF people mean uncompressed.
- ramraj07 4y agoIn that regard lzw has been the standard lossless tiff compression format I’ve seen.
- atoav 4y agoGood point. What I wanted to say is, that what is "the best" depends a lot on the application. Maybe you don't care about compression/size, but about write speed. Maybe read speed is something you care about, maybe you do actually care about size, but compatibility with certain clients is even more important, maybe you care a lot about how long decompression takes, how much strain it puts on the CPU or the memory, etc. So it is certainly not as simple as just going for the thing that produces the smallest file in some benchmark that may or may not fit your realworld data.