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bitpush • yesterday at 5:57 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

If you're transcoding why wont you go to avif or another one? If jpeg -> jpeg-xl uniquely better?


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pwg • yesterday at 6:01 PM

JPEG is a lossy format. JPEG -> AVIF adds a second loss operation. JPEG to JPEG-XL is lossless but with a smaller file size. So one does not further degrade the jpegs beyond what they were already degraded in creating them in the first place.