brunsli

Practical JPEG Repacker

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Practical JPEG Repacker

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2022	2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC	1	0	1

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ksec·Jun 23, 2020

And that is the reason why I dont like Open Media Alliance in General. Not only does the best JPEG encoder perform as good if not better than the best WebP encoder. With a JPEG Repacker [1] JPEG file size could easily be 20% smaller. If you have to support a new format with relatively little benefits, why not just support using the repacked instead. [1]https://github.com/google/brunsli

In Is WebP really better than JPEG?

networked·Mar 1, 2020Submission

Brunsli: Practical JPEG repacker (now part of JPEG XL)

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The_rationalist·Feb 19, 2020

I wonder if this is a reaction to the issue I opened :) https://github.com/google/brunsli/issues/60

In JPEG Committee releases a call for evidence for image compression based on AI

spider-mario·Feb 7, 2020

JPEG XL integrates https://github.com/google/brunsli , and when used in that mode, you can go back to the original JPEG file in a bit-exact way. There is also a mode that only preserves the JPEG image data.

In FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format