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linkydinkandyou on Oct 2, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Free Lossless Image Format

It's been a thing for at least 20 years, when "wavelet" compression first started being used.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_2000#Progressive_transmis...

And the Digital Cinema formats widely used today rely on this so a 2K or 4K stream can be extracted from the same file.

What's "new" about FLIF is the better lossless compression rate

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