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Re:Blasting Past WebP - An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMe... by saagarjha on Friday March 28, 2025 @03:14PM (#43508985)
The same could be said for half the formats Apple ships: HEIF/HEVC, for example. Or even LZFSE: who asked for an algorithm that compresses worse, slower?
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Re:Blasting Past WebP - An analysis of the NSO BLASTPASS iMe... by astrange on Friday March 28, 2025 @03:55PM (#43509314)
It could but HEVC is actually an open standard, whereas WebP is a proprietary codec they bought and then released with no community feedback. (That's why the next VPx codec was better.)

Also HEIF actually has useful features, it supports HDR!

AVIF is certainly better though. I only feel positively about AVIF and JPEGXL.

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