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Re:What's Going on with HEIF and Mac OS 10.13 by gribbly on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @09:25PM (#15344161)
Personally I'm not impressed with the quality of the lossy encoding, it's not enough of a improvement on JPEG to make it worthwhile, for lossless however it's the best format I know of right now, compresses MUCH better than PNG, and both compression and decompression is MUCH faster.

FLIF compresses better than webp, but it also compresses/decompresses more slowly, and the difference in size is quite small so overall for lossless compression, WebP is my choice.

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Re:What's Going on with HEIF and Mac OS 10.13 by JyrkiAlakuijala on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @06:25PM (#15352894)
Oh, thank you!! Music to my ears! I designed the WebP lossless format. Our most recent effort PIK tries to achieve the same in the lossy world that WebP lossless has done in the lossless coding -- a practical, efficient, fast and simple compromise.
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Re:What's Going on with HEIF and Mac OS 10.13 by gribbly on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @11:17PM (#15354284)
You're welcome, and huge thanks for WebP.

PIK had flown under my radar, looks really interesting. Any estimate of when a first release will be out ?

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