Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet

Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet by blahshaw on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:15PM (#14841133)

Is this what Google Photos uses for their unlimited "high quality" image storage?

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Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet by Scaevolus on Monday July 24, 2017 @04:33PM (#14842400)

Google photos "high quality" means downscaling to 16MP if larger and compressing at 85% libjpeg quality level. I don't believe it uses exotic codecs.

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Re:Pik – a new lossy image format for the internet by adventured on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:44PM (#14841391)

The short answer is: no

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