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Visual Comparisons

Visual comparisons between codecs are difficult. Images can be cherry-picked to flaunt a particular encoder's strengths, visual preferences differ across human beings, and metrics often don't tell a complete story when used as the basis for making fidelity matched comparisons. You have been warned that this section is rather unscientific, but we've tried our best to create fair comparisons here in the low to medium fidelity range to make differences easily visually distinguishable.

⚠️ JPEG XL: If you aren't using a browser that supports JPEG XL, the JXL images in these comparisons won't display. We would recommend using a browser supporting JXL for viewing these comparisons adequately; some examples are Thorium, Waterfox, & Safari.

Methodology

If you want to dive deeper into our testing, see the methodology page.