Google's new JPEG image encoder offers higher quality and saves on size and bandwidth

07 April 2024
The new jpegli coding library could be the next step in evolving the ubiquitous image format.

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Anonymous, 07 Apr 202460% of iphone sales are more than 120.000.000. That is mo... moreRed herring! Even IF you're correct, no one here said that it's not "more than xiaomi,vivo and oppo (one plus) sell." When people like you lack good response, they start drifting away from the point being made, which is what you attempted.

And sorry, there are still many android OEMs outside those three.

    Anonymous, 08 Apr 2024You have to pay for it on Windows because MS is cheap.I think it depends on the OEM.
    LG has a free plugin for their HEIC format for Windows.

      SShock, 07 Apr 2024I don't because support for it is terrible. So many ap... moreSounds like those apps' problem.

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        wow, good

        this is moving forward tech

          Anonymous, 08 Apr 2024You know, you can just simply put a microSD card slot in th... moreI used to have experience with cheap Chinese clones. Since then, I bought a genuine example with a factory-backed warranty, which still never misses a beat.

            Artem S. Tashkinov, 07 Apr 2024Still doesn't support 10/12/16 bit per channel color. ... moreI think everyone is missing the point including the article. Google is not making a new format here, it is making a better encoder for it. I'm currently using MozJPEG, but I might switch to Jpegli if the claims pan out.

            Webp is not a failure given how nearly everyone has support for it. Unlike heic, which will never replace jpeg as long as Apple does Apple things. Webp or avif is the future, again a struggle between existing adoption (webp) vs better new format (avif). I think jpegxl is dead at this point.

              Anonymous, 08 Apr 2024You know, you can just simply put a microSD card slot in th... moreif they also think that sd cards slows down performance, they perhaps used low end phones combined with cheap non branded sd cards.

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                • 08 Apr 2024

                You know, you can just simply put a microSD card slot in the smartphone. This kind of advancement happens because pretty much nobody except Sony don't put microSD card slot on phones, at least in the flagship segment. You can miss me with all the "sD cArD is sLoW" and "iT cORruPts dAtA" since you buy cheap China clones anyway.

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                  Sam N8 808 owner, 08 Apr 2024I already did, very carefully. There was no hint of privacy... moreYou can review the source code if you're concerned about that. I don't know what exactly you're concerned about, though. Do you have an example?

                    Anonymous, 08 Apr 2024Read the article.I already did, very carefully. There was no hint of privacy invasion by Google (I wouldn't say the mention of black magic qualifies as one).

                    The reasoning given, saving money on storage, is an acceptable one, if a huge share of entire Google drive is just photos.
                    And yet, it troubles me: if there is a hidden privacy invasion? Because its Google.

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                      Sam N8 808 owner, 08 Apr 2024Can anyone tell me if using this codec helps Google in trac... moreMust smaller photos, save them tons of money on server storage.

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                        Sam N8 808 owner, 08 Apr 2024Can anyone tell me if using this codec helps Google in trac... moreRead the article.

                          Can anyone tell me if using this codec helps Google in tracking user data in any way?

                          If Google is doing it, no way they're doing it for free... or are they? What's Google's benefit?

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                            unxpctd, 07 Apr 2024Who cares what the default is? HEIC is a smaller, better lo... moreCameras (proper ones, not the ones in your phone) save in jpeg format. It is too ubiquitous to be replaced.

                              you have to suffer, 08 Apr 2024because they decode so fast that it bugs the image. it work... moreIt would be better if everyone together make a jump to AVIF(AV1 Image Format) given the rise in hardware for AV1 encoding and it seems to be fast to both encode and decode with good compression and quality retention. Also it's open and royalty free unlike HEIC, thanks to Apple for making it difficult for others to use their image format which if was free would have been adopted by everyone long ago.

                                Anonymous, 07 Apr 2024No one enables HEIC as the format is buggy and terrible. Ca... morebecause they decode so fast that it bugs the image. it works fine on other platforms. just take a while to load fully.

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                                  SShock, 07 Apr 2024That's because Apple uses HEIC encoding by default. No... moreNow we need a GCam mod that can register images in this JPEGli format hopefully with 16bit/chanel and Ultra HDR gama gain map. And take advantage of 50 or 200MP sensors.
                                  BTW the HEIC still coming from S23ultra are just 8bit/channel so it gives smaller files but no HDR.
                                  I've started to use AGC 9.2 GCam mod that captures Ultra HDR images in S23ultra but it's still limited to 12MP but it gives better colours and realism to image.

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                                    unxpctd, 07 Apr 2024Who cares what the default is? HEIC is a smaller, better lo... moreYou have to pay for it on Windows because MS is cheap.

                                      Anonymous, 07 Apr 2024No one enables HEIC as the format is buggy and terrible. Ca... moreThat's windows support, not the format.
                                      HEIF works fine on iOS, android and MacOS, while windows decoding is hit and miss as sometimes it decodes it as fast as it should, other times you'll be waiting for the macroblocks to go away...

                                        SShock, 07 Apr 2024That's because Apple uses HEIC encoding by default. No... moreWho cares what the default is? HEIC is a smaller, better looking, and higher bit depth format. JPEG needs to die already.

                                        And using your example, casual users should be using HEIC then. Casuals aren't doing much with their pictures, they aren't content creators. No support? Drop it in Simple Gallery and generate a JPEG in no time.

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