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Re:Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from imag... by odbol_ on Friday July 15, 2016 @12:04PM (#12101937)
It's not really "lossless" if it only works with a lossy format though, right?
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Re:Lepton image compression: saving 22% losslessly from imag... by mark-r on Friday July 15, 2016 @02:59PM (#12103096)
Yes and no. It's not a lossless way to encode an image, but the Lepton step itself doesn't add any loss that wasn't already present in the JPEG to begin with, and it generates a smaller file overall.
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