Comment on JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip
booly@sh.itjust.works 3 months agoI still think it’s bullshit that 20-year-old photos now look the same as 20-second-old photos. Young people out there with baby pictures that look like they were taken yesterday.
Plopp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
We need a file format that degrades into black and white over time.
tal@lemmy.today 3 months ago
The tradition has normally been to just have newer image formats and image-generation hardware and software that are more capable or higher fidelity so that the old stuff starts to look old in comparison to the new stuff.
FierySpectre@lemmy.world 3 months ago
What should be done is that every time a new format comes out all images in existence are re-encoded in that format. Hopefully that will cause artifacts, clearing everything up in terms of image age.
mwguy@infosec.pub 3 months ago
Slight tangent. But I’ve recently been pulling old home videos off of MiniDV tapes. And I’ve found that the ffmpeg dv1 decoder can correct several tape issues when re-encoding from
dv1to essentially any modern codec. So I’ve got like 3GB video files that look incredibly poor, but then I re-encode them into h264 files that look better than the original. It’s baffling how well that works.III@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Could probably pull that off with meta information to determine the age of the photo.