alt Hacker NewsBy that definition, all formats are lossy, because any preprocessing could be lossy, and the word loses all meaning … which is why we don't use that definition.
By that definition, all formats are lossy, because any preprocessing could be lossy, and the word loses all meaning … which is why we don't use that definition.
The word doesn't lose definition, it has different definitions for codecs and images.
If you reencode a jpeg to a png, you used a lossless format but your image is very lossy.