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Re:PNG Is Back by meindnoch on Friday June 27, 2025 @11:39AM (#44397658)
Show me any of the popular image conversion tools (avifenc, imagemagick, photoshop, ffmpeg, whatever...) that does the identity matrix hack when asking for lossless AVIF. None of them do it. Many people have been burned by "lossless" AVIF, where they converted their images in the mistaken belief that the result will be bit-identical to the original, only to find out that this wasn't the case, after they've deleted the original files.
Re:PNG Is Back by fc417fc802 on Friday June 27, 2025 @04:54PM (#44400131)
That's shifting the goalposts from what the standard supports to the current state of the ecosystem. It's certainly an interesting point though. If common implementations all have bugs regarding lossless encoding that's a pretty bad situation.