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WebP, a new image format for the Web (The Chromium Blog)

WebP, a new image format for the Web (The Chromium Blog)

Posted Oct 4, 2010 14:08 UTC (Mon) by fb (subscriber, #53265)
In reply to: WebP, a new image format for the Web (The Chromium Blog) by ab
Parent article: WebP, a new image format for the Web (The Chromium Blog)

FWIW IMO the faces of the two first persons look a lot better at the vp8 image than at the x264.


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WebP, a new image format for the Web (The Chromium Blog)

Posted Oct 8, 2010 13:56 UTC (Fri) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

I believe the point here is not which format is the best performing, but it it does not compare favorably to JPEG. Even if it does for some material chances are that the differences are slight. It is simply not good enough to replace the old, well understood, well implemented, JPEG.

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