- prefer https
- metadataworkinggroup.org/com seem to be offline; the web archive link
was obtained from exiftool: https://exiftool.org/TagNames/MWG.html
- fix kramdown link, rubyforge has been gone a long time
- fix png/zlib links
Bug: webp:544
Bug: b/202302177
Change-Id: Id69de4553e7baf00393f12a2c1acb262443a1a93
This is particularly useful for multi-pass search (but not only),
to prevent the search from going over or below a reasonable threshold.
E.g.: 'cwebp -qrange 50 80 ...' will prevent any unreasonable degradation.
new cwebp option: -qrange min max
Change-Id: I59f394533535fc20b6996bc0895f4301476d5eff
This is to prevent users shooting in the foot using -psnr or
-size alone and not getting the expected result.
Change-Id: I67a3289e4ec0a2a813c98807f2ec5e600f52dc63
Rename the flag to exact instead of the opposite cleanup_alpha. Add the flag to
WebPConfig. Do the cleanup in the webp encoder library rather than the cwebp
binary, this will be needed for the next stage: smarter alpha cleanup for
better compression which cannot be done as a preprocessing due to depending on
predictor choices in the encoder.
Change-Id: I2fbf57f918a35f2da6186ef0b5d85e5fd0020eef
Updated the near-lossless level mapping and make it correlated to lossy
quality i.e 100 => minimum loss (in-fact no-loss) and the visual-quality loss
increases with decrease in near-lossless level (quality) till value 0.
The new mapping implies following (PSNR) loss-metric:
-near_lossless 100: No-loss (bit-stream same as -lossless).
-near_lossless 80: Very very high PSNR (around 54dB).
-near_lossless 60: Very high PSNR (around 48dB).
-near_lossless 40: High PSNR (around 42dB).
-near_lossless 20: Moderate PSNR (around 36dB).
-near_lossless 0: Low PSNR (around 30dB).
Change-Id: I930de4b18950faf2868c97d42e9e49ba0b642960
Enable the WebP near-lossless feature by pre-processing the image to smoothen
the pixels.
On a 1000 PNG image corpus, for which WebP lossless (default settings) gets
25% compression gains, following is the performance of near-lossless feature
at various '-near_lossless' levels:
-near_lossless 90: 30% (very very high PSNR 54-60dB)
-near_lossless 75: 38% (very high PSNR 48-54dB)
-near_lossless 50: 45% (high PSNR 42-48dB)
-near_lossless 25: 48% (moderate PSNR 36-42dB)
-near_lossless 10: 50% (PSNR 30-36dB)
WebP near-lossless is specifically useful for discrete-tone images like
line-art, icons etc.
Change-Id: I7d12a2c9362ccd076d09710ea05c85fa64664c38
This compresses the uimage using lossless compression and controlable
decimating pre-process.
Code is under WEBP_EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURE while it's being experimented with.
Change-Id: I8b7f4cfcc3c6afc52a556102842bdbb045ed5ee8
These are presets for lossless coding, similar to zlib.
The shortcut for lossless coding is now, e.g.:
cwebp -z 5 in.png -o out_lossless.webp
There are 10 possible values for -z parameter:
0 (fastest, lowest compression)
to 9 (slowest, best compression)
A reasonable tradeoff is -z 6, e.g.
-z 9 can be quite slow, so use with care.
This -z option is just a shortcut for some pre-defined
'-lossless -m xx -q yy' combinations.
Change-Id: I6ae716456456aea065469c916c2d5ca4d6c6cf04
from man-pages (7):
provides a comma-separated list of related man pages, ordered by section
number and then alphabetically by name, possibly followed by other
related pages or documents. Do not terminate this with a period.
Change-Id: I6763b3b3a89f3c2e9ed5c1a4e9d05fb9ce85dd40
-> helps debanding (sky, gradients, etc.)
This dithering can only be triggered when using -preset photo
or -pre 2 (as a preprocessing). Everything is unchanged otherwise.
Note that this change is likely to make the perceived PSNR/SSIM drop
since we're altering the input internally.
Change-Id: Id8d4326245d9b828141de162c94ba381b1fa5813
new option: -blend_alpha 0xrrggbb
also: don't force picture.use_argb value for lossless. Instead,
delay the YUVA<->ARGB conversion till WebPEncode() is called.
This make the blending more accurate when source is ARGB
and lossy compression is used (YUVA).
This has an effect on cropping/rescaling. E.g. for PNG, these
are now done in ARGB colorspace instead of YUV when lossy compression
is used.
Change-Id: I18571f1b1179881737a8dbd23ad0aa8cddae3c6b
using token-buffer (that is: slightly more memory. O(output_size))
This change is ON by default. To return to previous behaviour, use
'cwebp -low_memory' or set config.low_memory to true.
Side-effect of this new mode: it forces 1 partition only (which was
default anyway), and makes some statistics about the bitstream
no longer available. cwebp will no longer report 'intra4-coeffs', etc.
This mode also doesn't work (yet) with multi-pass, and -low_memory
is currently forced for multi-pass.
also: reversed the flag: USE_TOKEN_BUFFER -> DISABLE_TOKEN_BUFFER
also: fixed the kAverageBytesPerMB estimate
Change-Id: I4ea80382038d6df4309663e0cb7bd88d9bca9cf1
new option: 'cwebp -mt ...'
new config flag: config.thread_level
(allowed thread_level are 0 or 1 for now. Maybe more later...)
If -mt is activated (and WEBP_USE_THREAD is used for compile), the alpha-compression
will be done in parallel to RGB coding for lossy. Can save quite a bit of latency...
Has no effect for lossless encoding.
Change-Id: I769d0bf90e7380cf99344ad62cd77277f4df5a46
This option remaps internal parameters to better match
the expected compression curve of JPEG and produce output files
of similar size, but with better quality.
Change-Id: I96a1cbb480b1f6a0c6845a23c33dfd63f197b689
currently has no effect except to disable metadata extraction from the
input when the value is 'none'.
Change-Id: Ic50d4c9d634cc1f6b72ae4e130e99736c85a6477
LSIM stands for "local similarity": before matching
a compressed pixel to the source, we search around in the source
and minimise the squared error. So, this is close to PSNR calculation,
but mitigates some of its limitations (pure translation and noise for instance).
There's a new -print_lsim option to cwebp too.
Change-Id: Ia38561034c7a90e71d2ea0f55bb1de527eda245b
For low-color images, it may be better to not use color-palettes.
Users should treat this as one another hint (as with Photo &
Picture) and another parameter for tuning the compression density.
The optimum compression can still be obtained by running (outer loop)
compression with all possible tunable parameters.
Change-Id: Icb1a4face2a84774e16e801aee4a8ae97e232e8a
These will report the 7x7-averaged PSNR or SSIM, using the
new internal function WebPPictureDistortion().
This is for information only. These flags have no encoding impact.
+misc opportunistic cosmetics
Change-Id: I64c0a7eca679134d39062e438886274b22bb643f
to 'clean up' the fully-transparent area and make it more compressible
new cwebp flags: -alpha_cleanup (off by default, since gain is not 100% guaranteed)
Change-Id: I74d77e1915eee146584cd61c9c1132a41db922eb
