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		pmarreck on Feb 7, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FLIF – Free Lossless Image Format I was a fan/proponent of that! Whatever happened to wavelet compression?

loeg on Feb 7, 2020 [–]

Patents.

ksec on Feb 7, 2020 | [–]

Most of them had expired. Wavelet is something that looks good in theory but in practice couldn't beat the millions man hours work put into standard DCT.

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