Re:Is WebP really better than JPEG?
by fomine3 on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @01:24AM
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I can't imagine any cheap SoC for smartphones without H.264 HW decoder because playing video is essential and it can record video. Possibly exists for low-feature phones without camera but it's not for web browsing.
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Re:Is WebP really better than JPEG?
by heavyset_go on Thursday June 25, 2020 @04:33PM
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The licenses for codecs sometimes cut into the thin margins on budget phones. A large amount of people outside of the US and EU are stuck on low-end phones, and I'm pretty sure many of the government subsidized phones in the US are in the same boat.