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ifjxl
thorium-libjxl
- Chrome still hasn't changed its opinion about dropping JPEG XL support
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jxl-oxide: A pure Rust implementation of the JPEG XL decoder
It's supported in a Chromium fork called Thorium as well. The patches to undo Google's removal of JXL have been published separately, too: https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-libjxl
- Thorium libJXL switched to BSD licence
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JPEG-XL vs. AVIF and Others: 27 Images Compared
As I mentioned in the article, Thorium is a Chromium-based browser that fully supports JPEG-XL. Here's the libjxl patch that can be ported to other Chromium-based browsers: https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-libjxl
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Up-to-date Chrome browser & library with JPEG-XL restored
There is a new repo for the source code for this, used as a submodule in this repo: https://github.com/Alex313031/thorium-libjxl ... let's hope it gets updated with the full jxl feature set.
What are some alternatives?
ifavif - AVIF Susie plugin
enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-deco
gimp-jpegxl-plugin - Plug-in for development GIMP 2.99 for loading/saving JPEG XL (JXL) images.
Thorium-Win - Chromium fork for Windows named after radioactive element No. 90; Windows builds of https://github.com/Alex313031/Thorium
pi-sph-fluid - Fluid simulation toy on a Raspberry Pi 4 with tilt input, using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH)
Thorium-Special - Special builds of Thorium for SSE3 and different processors.
jxl-oxide - Pure Rust implementation of JPEG XL decoder
enable-chromium-hevc-hardware-decoding - A guide that teach you enable hardware HEVC decoding & encoding for Chrome / Edge, or build a custom version of Chromium / Electron that supports hardware & software HEVC decoding and hardware HEVC encoding.