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		dahart on April 10, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Silly Image Compression Idea Maybe you could elaborate… what do you mean? Both of those examples (JPEG, H264) have decompressors for viewing, right?

bsuvc on April 11, 2022 [–]

I think the point is that some compression algorithms are lossy (the original cannot be reproduced by decompression) and others are not.

You can’t restore a jpeg to its original image.

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