Hello, For those interested, after the many recent quality improvements and adding of very high compression quality settings, I have released a new version 0.1.6 of the NHW Project.
I have validated all the quality settings from -h3 high quality setting to -l14 very high compression quality setting.Actually my eyes get used to detect and prefer neatness as perceived visual quality, and so on all these quality settings I visually prefer the results of the NHW Project compared to x265 (HEVC) and other codecs, because it has more neatness. The NHW Project is still royalty-free, and a lot faster to encode/decode than x265 (optimized HEVC), WebP,... We can also still save 2.5KB per.nhw compressed file, will have to do these improvements. More on the new 0.1.6 version at: http://nhwcodec.blogspot.com/ I have started to work on "extreme" compression -l15 and -l16 quality settings, but my algorithm starts to perform less efficiently than HEVC.Sor for now I put "extreme" compression on pause, now I will work on adapting the NHW Project to any image size.As this is quite a lot of work, and as I am doing it on my spare time, it will take time, around 6 months I think, so I would expect the next release in June/July 2019. Unless I have fundamental new idea for extreme compression, I think I won't post on this list and will stop disturbing you for a while, I wanted to let you know that this 0.1.6 version will be the reference version if you want to evaluate the NHW Project. Many thanks again. Cheers, Raphael Canut
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