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JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip (www.youtube.com)
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[–] [email protected] 405 points 3 months ago (13 children)

TL:DW, JPEG is getting old in the tooth, which prompted the creation of JPEG XL, which is a fairly future-proof new compression standard that can compress images to the same file size or smaller than regular JPEG while having massively higher quality.

However, JPEG XL support was removed from Google Chrome based browsers in favor of AVIF, a standalone image compression derived from the AV1 video compression codec that is decidedly not future-proof, having some hard-coded limitations, as well as missing some very nice to have features that JPEG XL offers such as progressive image loading and lower hardware requirements. The result of this is that JPEG XL adoption will be severely hamstrung by Google’s decision, which is ultimately pretty lame.

[–] [email protected] 238 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is why Google keeps getting caught up in monopoly lawsuits.

[–] altima_neo 148 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Modern Google is becoming the Microsoft of the 90s

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And they'll make eleventy bajillion dollars in the meantime, plenty of money to pay their inevitable punitive "fines."

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Hell old MSs penalty was giving free licenses in markets it never had a grip on, so its "lock 'em in!" model meant the "penalty" benefited them!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

Which is funny and said because Microsoft is also the Microsoft of the 90s.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Microsoft is still like this

[–] [email protected] 172 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I tried JPEG XL and it didn’t even make my files extra large. It actually made them SMALLER.

False advertising.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think you took the wrong enlargement pill.

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[–] [email protected] 69 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Jpeg XL isn’t backwards compatible with existing JPEG renderers. If it was, it’d be a winner. We already have PNG and JPG and now we’ve got people using the annoying webP. Adding another format that requires new decoder support isn’t going to help.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 3 months ago

"the annoying webp" AFAIK is the same problem as JPEG XL, apps just didn't implement it.

It is supported in browsers, which is good, but not in third party apps. AVIF or whatever is going to have the same problem.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

Jpeg XL isn’t backwards compatible with existing JPEG renderers. If it was, it’d be a winner.

According to the video, and this article, JPEG XL is backwards compatible with JPEG.

But I'm not sure if that's all that necessary. JPEG XL was designed to be a full, long term replacement to JPEG. Old JPEG's compression is very lossy, while JPEG XL, with the same amount of computational power, speed, and size, outclasses it entirely. PNG is lossless, and thus is not comparable since the file size is so much larger.

JPEG XL, at least from what I'm seeing, does appear to be the best full replacement for JPEG (and it's not like they can't co-exist).

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It’s only backwards compatible in that it can re-encode existing jpeg content into the newer format without any image loss. Existing browsers and apps can’t render jpegXL without adding a new decoder.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (15 children)

Existing browsers and apps can’t render jpegXL without adding a new decoder.

Why is that a negative?

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My understanding is that webp isn't actually all that bad from a technical perspective, it was just annoying because it started getting used widely on the web before all the various tools caught up and implemented support for it.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

I just wish more software would support webp files. I remember Reddit converting every image to webp to save on space and bandwidth (smart, imo) but not allowing you to directly upload webp files in posts because it wasn't a supported file format.

If webp was just more standardized, I'd love to use it more. It would certainly save me a ton of storage space.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (25 children)

So… your solution is to stick with extremely dated and objectively bad file formats? You using Windows 95?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Forgive my ignorance, but isn't this like complaining that a PlayStation 2 can't play PS5 games?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All the cool kids use .HEIF anyway

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

I use jpeg 2000

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Isn't that the same as other newer formats though?

There's always something new, and if the new thing is better, adding/switching to it is the better move.

Or am I missing something about the other formats like webp?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

You can't add new and better stuff while staying compatible with the old stuff. Especially not when your goal is compact files (or you'd just embed the old format).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Look it's all actually about re-encumberancing image file formats back into corporate controlled patented formats. If we would collectively just spend time and money and development resources expanding and improving PNG and gif formats that are no longer patent encumbered, we'd all live happily ever after.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Why was it not included? AVIF creator influence bias. It's a good story.

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[–] [email protected] 228 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Without jpeg compression artifacts how the hell are we supposed to know which memes are fresh and which memes are vintage???

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I still think it's bullshit that 20-year-old photos now look the same as 20-second-old photos. Young people out there with baby pictures that look like they were taken yesterday.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 3 months ago (6 children)

We need a file format that degrades into black and white over time.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 3 months ago

Pretty much sums it up. JPEGXL could've been the standard by now if Google would stop kneecapping it in favor of its own tech, now we're stuck in an awkward position where neither of them are getting as much traction because nobody can decide on which to focus on.

Also, while Safari does support AVIF, there are some features it doesn't support like moving images, so we have to wait on that too... AVIF isn't bad, but it doesn't matter if it takes another 5+ years to get global support for a new image format...

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 months ago (3 children)

People are quick to blame Google for the slow uptake of Jpeg XL, but I don't think that can be the whole story. Lots of other vendors, including non-commercial free software projects, have also been slow to support it. Gimp for example still only supports it via a plugin.

But if it's not just a matter of Google being assholes, what's the actual issue with Jpeg XL uptake? No clue, does anyone know?

[–] Skeletonek 38 points 3 months ago

GIMP supports JPEG XL natively in 3.0 development versions. If I remember correctly GIMP 2.10 was released before JPEG-XL was ready, so I think that's the reason. They could have added support in smaller update though, which was the case with AVIF.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Lots of other vendors, including non-commercial free software projects, have also been slow to support it.

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It doesn't look like the Lemmy Web UI supports JPEG XL uploads, for one.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Imgur doesn’t let me upload it either, I have to use general file hosts

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Nobody remember JPEG2000 ?!?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago

Jpeg2000 was patent encumbered. They waived the patents but that wasn't guaranteed going forward.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago

AnD tHaTs A bAd ThInG

😒

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Wasn't there a licensing issue with jpeg xl for using Microsoft's some sort of algo?

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 months ago (4 children)

bring back bmp and tiff cowards

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

I'll just revert to .IFF

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago

do I look like I know what a jay peg is?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

There were 14 competing standards.

There are now 13 competing standards.

And that's fine by me.

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