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Using Google's WebP Image Format with Open Tools on Linux (Linux.com)

Using Google's WebP Image Format with Open Tools on Linux (Linux.com)

Posted Mar 25, 2011 16:02 UTC (Fri) by fsphil (guest, #44932)
In reply to: Using Google's WebP Image Format with Open Tools on Linux (Linux.com) by piggy
Parent article: Using Google's WebP Image Format with Open Tools on Linux (Linux.com)

If the format is anything like JPEG then the lossless part they talk about is the last stage (after the lossy bit) when the bitstream is passed through some kind of entropy encoding, like Huffman coding or arithmetic coding.


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