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What's JPEG XL? Everyone knows about boring old JPEG, there was also a JPEG 2000 standard that nobody used in practice because it was said to be patent encumbered. Is JPEG XL related to that?


I think you can find those answered spelled out online.

In short, it’s not JPEG 2000.


TLDR is JPEG XL is a new standard (not related to JPEG 2000) that among other things allows lossless re-compression of JPEG images with roughly 30% space savings, as well as a bunch of other useful features (better progressive decompression, bigger blocks, reduced banding, higher bit-depth, etc.


Here is some basic info on jxl: https://jpegxl.info/why-jxl.html




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