Re:WebP is so great except it's not
by JyrkiAlakuijala on Monday December 25, 2023 @07:15AM
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The lossless thingy is Brunsli. In the last meters of the standardization, Brunsli in JPEG XL was replaced with "Brunsli 2.0", the more natural formalism in JPEG XL format, allowing for a smaller spec and decoder as well as parallel decoding.
Guetzli is a slow high quality jpeg encoder. One can use jpegli for that need nowadays, 1000x faster...
Also if you decide to forgo the reversibility you can get a bit more out of it as JXL is actually a superset of JPEG, so it can read the JPEG stream and convert it to JXL without complete recompression - it will just use more efficient structure of JXL and much more efficient (ANS vs. Huffman) entropy encoding. The additional savings compared to the reversible mode aren't big however.