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[-] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 171 points 1 month ago

wdym "terrible quality loss"; for one their lossless beats PNG

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 124 points 1 month ago

They had a better joke, but they converted it to a Webp and lost the punchline.

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 33 points 1 month ago

This depends, if your image contains a lot of flat colours (like a screenshot of a website) then PNG can actually give you smaller file sizes than lossless webp. But for most images (especially ones with compression artefacts) lossless webp gives smaller sizes.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 11 points 1 month ago

But that’s not got anything to do with quality. That’s compression size

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 60 points 1 month ago

Lossless encoding, by definition, won't have any quality loss.

[-] Carighan@piefed.world 10 points 1 month ago

Watch some startup "invent" a revolutionary lossless format that discards some information.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Huh? The OP literally said “their lossless beats png” and then you proceeded to talk about file size which wasn’t ever part of the conversation. The conversation was about quality.

[-] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago

Lossless is fine, lossy is worse than JPEG.

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 6 points 1 month ago

If someone chooses lossy they deserve whatever torture they receive.

[-] SleveMcDichael@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

Unfortunately most people don't really have a choice in the matter. It's sites like twitter that crunch images to hell and back on upload that choose for us.

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 month ago

Choose life don't use webbed sites that use lossy webps

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