Any interest in automatic image compression?

[colbyn]

For lossy encoders theres usually some parameter controlling compression. Instead of using hardcoded settings, or manually tuning such, I’ve been working on a tool that I call Imager that tries to find the best compression/file-size tradeoff automatically.

Just curious to get some usage feedback and all. :)

[israellot]

This seems promising. It would be great to have the option to add it to the image processing pipeline.

[lilith]

@colbyn I believe there is a licensing conflict - I don't think I can redistribute MPL code under a dual Apache 2/AGPL license.

[lilith]

actually, I think I'm wrong - licensing should be fine. I do wonder if it is cross-platform though?

[colbyn]

Hey @lilith, regarding cross platform support. In summary, only MacOS and Linux has been tested.

Personally I’m not very familiar with Windows, and Imager depends on various C dependences that will probably beed to be updated (i.e. the build scripts), such as VMAF and WebP, I think mozjpeg will be fine though (I didn't write this).

Part of me has been wishing I could fallback to compiling my C dependencies to WASM, among other reasons. Also may be easier to maintain as new codecs get added in the future (really excited about AV1/HEVC).