Comment on JPEG is Dying - And that's a bad thing | 2kliksphilip

• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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  • FierySpectre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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    • mwguy@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 dv1 to 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.

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      • FierySpectre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Wait, that’s illegal

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• III@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Could probably pull that off with meta information to determine the age of the photo.

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