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Google made a new image format for the web [9/30]
Google made a new image format to combat jpeg, saying that it could reduce the filesize of an image about 39% while keeping the same level of quality.
http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/webp-new-image-format-for-web.html
Criticism quote from wikipedia:
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Google made a new image format to combat jpeg, saying that it could reduce the filesize of an image about 39% while keeping the same level of quality.
http://blog.chromium.org/2010/09/webp-new-image-format-for-web.html
Criticism quote from wikipedia:
Wikipedia said:Jason Garrett-Glaser, a developer of the x264 encoder, gave several points of criticism for WebP. Using a comparison of different encodings (JPEG, x264 and WebP) of a reference image, he stated that the quality of the WebP-encoded result was the worst of the three, mostly because of blurriness on the image. His main remark was that "libvpx, a much more powerful encoder than ffmpeg's jpeg encoder, loses because it tries too hard to optimize for PSNR", arguing instead that "good psy[cho-visual] optimizations are more important than anything else for compression." He also criticized Google's announcement, saying that it shouldn't have publicized the format before its results are better than JPEG's.
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