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meindnochyesterday at 5:42 PM0 repliesview on HN

False.

8-bit YCoCg (even when using the reversible YCoCg-R [1] scheme) cannot represent 8-bit RGB losslessly. The chroma channels would need 9 bits of precision to losslessly recover the original 8-bit RGB values.

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...