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[–] ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 week ago (10 children)

Never understood why jepgXL didn’t win out

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

~~The compression technique it used was patented, and the licence fee was extortionate. By the time the patent expired, other, royalty-free, techniques were available that outperformed it.~~

[–] __nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're thinking of jpeg2000

[–] AnyOldName3@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Oops. I'd somehow missed that there was now a third kind of JPEG.

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