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One thing that bothered me enough to comment on: "transcoding" doesn't seem like the right term in this context. "Encode/decode" is technically correct, but "co
by nithril 14d ago
One thing that bothered me enough to comment on: "transcoding" doesn't seem like the right term in this context. "Encode/decode" is technically correct, but "compress/decompress" would have made the intent much clearer.
- walrus01 14d agoTranscoding is generally used within the context of audio or video codecs, to convert a file from one format to another. And usually from one lossy format to another (eg: not raw uncompressed YUV420, YUV422P video or whatever that is stored in a lossless compression format). It's not clear to me why they're using it in this web page.
- TacticalCoder 14d agoYeah, the following sentence in TFA is weird: > Transcoding does not mean compressing everything. Images, video, and fonts are usually compressed already. It's because they're already lossily compressed that, precisely, they're the typical targets for transcoding. EDIT: oops, wrote lossless instead of lossy, sorry about that
- walrus01 14d agoAdditionally modern fonts are normally vector point data, no? So there's plenty of opportunity for shrinking file size by lossless compession. But I don't think that's what they're talking about here?