Who Knew That Trade Offs Matter When Evaluating Media Codecs and Compression Algorithms

I’ve been planning on evaluating new image codecs and it looks like it’ll be harder than I thought.

• With JPEG XL, it seemed like higher compression effort settings took way more time and resulted in a bigger file. Thing is, those higher levels do more “work” to mitigate artifacts, sharpen text and the like; allowing for more quality at a given file size.