Mozilla Doubles Down on JPEG Encoding with mozjpeg 2.0 129
An anonymous reader writes: Mozilla today announced the release of mozjpeg version 2.0. The JPEG encoder is now capable of reducing the size of both baseline and progressive JPEGs by 5 percent on average (compared to those produced by the standard JPEG library libjpeg-turbo upon which mozjpeg is based). Mozilla today also revealed that Facebook is testing mozjpeg 2.0 to see whether it can be used to improve the compression of images on Facebook.com. The company has even donated $60,000 to contribute to the ongoing development of the technology.
Tiny bumps in JPEG performance (Score:5, Insightful)
and still no merge of the working WebP patch that was proposed four years ago [mozilla.org] because NIH.
Re:Hard to get excited. (Score:5, Insightful)
5% of image bandwidth saved for someone like Facebook is millions of dollars in operating expense. Get a clue.
Re:Hard to get excited. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Hard to get excited. (Score:4, Insightful)
...low hanging fruit like cutting the 37% of their bandwidth used on videos by 20-30% by getting HEVC or VP9 really working well
If they wanted to tackle the low-hanging fruit, why not stop auto-playing video at all?
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Re:Hard to get excited. (Score:4, Insightful)
aw crap, I have shamed myself.
Re:Tiny bumps in JPEG performance (Score:3, Insightful)