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JPEG2000 ran into a patent license trap. JPEG XL is explicitly royalty free.

• rwmj 3y ago
  But that doesn't address the point that JPEG XL is only marginally better and has a gigantic mountain to climb if it ever hopes to displace JPEG (and likely never will given the vast set of JPEG files that exist and will never be converted).
  • pgeorgi 3y ago
    JPEG XL can losslessy transcode JPEG into a smaller format. JPEG2000 (or WebP or anything but Lepton[0]) didn't offer that. Besides, we have gif and png for approximately the same space. gif still isn't gone. Displacement isn't necessary for a new format to become useful. [0] https://github.com/dropbox/lepton https://github.com/dropbox/lepton
  • fold3 3y ago
    Even if JPEG-XL could be considered only 'marginally' better than JPEG, and as good or even worse than avif/webP in some specific context, it is unique in the fact that it can also do lossless, HDR, extremely high res, complex color channels, generation loss protection, multi layers, advanced authoring features, etc... It's not a format only meant for the web but plenty of other use cases such as in science, medecine, art print, etc. And not only that, it's reasonably fast to encode on consumer hardware. JPEG XL has the ambition to supplant all the images formats of the next 20+years.
  • ksec 3y ago
    > JPEG XL is only marginally better You will have to define what is marginally better. WebP is definitely marginally better than JPEG. And JPEG XL is easily 30- 40% BD-Rate at the same quality at BPP 0.8 or over.