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Re:Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from imag... by joosters on Thursday July 14, 2016 @04:22PM (#12096885)
The JPEG file format is pretty detailed, there are lots of places in the file where you could indicate that the image has been compressed with a different algorithm. But it wouldn't really help, because older decompressors will still not be able to interpret the new codec. They would be able to parse the file and read the metadata in it - like image width and height, timestamps, camera details, and so on, but there's no way it can decompress the data.

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