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Re:Daala progress update by 0x0 on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:07PM (#8790730)
I think the sky looks much nicer in Daala, but the bushes look much more blurred.
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Re:Daala progress update by aidenn0 on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:09PM (#8790740)
I agree; JPEG has more artifacts which is most noticeable in low-frequency areas, but preserves more detail in high-frequency areas.

All of the non-JPEG codecs seem to have greatly reduce artifacts in the low-frequency areas, but for some of them (VP8 in particular) it was at a significant loss of detail.

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Re:Daala progress update by nitrogen on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:39PM (#8790832)
Apart from JPEG's blockiness and VP8's complete loss of detail, it looks like the main difference between codecs is which parts of the image have detail preserved. Some codecs preserve subtle sky texture at the expense of the trees, others do the opposite.
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