<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Do note that converting a JPG to HEIF can be a lossy process, introducing more loss as a second-generation compression. :(</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Better to go to HEIF direct from a loss-less source if possible.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 9, 2020 at 9:16 AM Gilles Caulier <<a href="mailto:caulier.gilles@gmail.com">caulier.gilles@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Compression algorithm is not the same. HEIF use a wavelets like compression which is better in file size ratio for the same quality.</div><div><br></div><div>Just experiment with BQM to translate a serie of JPEG to HEIF to see the gain.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div><br></div><div>Gilles Caulier<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Le jeu. 9 janv. 2020 à 16:06, Erick Moreno <<a href="mailto:erickmoreno@gmail.com" target="_blank">erickmoreno@gmail.com</a>> a écrit :<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi guys,</div><div><br></div><div>I'm not generating HEIF files natively with my devices, but, since Digikam can handle them pretty well, as Google Photos and my cellphones does, I see that my main workflow is ready for a possible migration to heif.</div><div><br></div><div>Considering that, there is any benefit converting my already compressed .jpg files to .heif files?</div><div><br></div><div>What the benefits or drawbacks from this type of conversion?</div><div><br></div><div>Thank you<br></div><div><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><b>Erick Moreno</b></div><div>Science is like magic, but real<br></div><div dir="ltr"><b></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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