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greenleafone7today at 2:21 PM2 repliesview on HN

So then ... "lossy"


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tancoptoday at 4:39 PM

theres a big difference between 99% quality and 30%. near lossless is a good name for the first one. if you treat it in a binary way where everything short of 100 falls into one "lossy" bucket you lose all the practical differences that make one encoding much better than another.

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