JPEG to JXL at quality 100 grows files
Converting JPEG to JXL at quality 100 makes files larger than the original, and no true lossless JPEG recompression mode exists.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 28 May 2024 · last reported 30 August 2026
What's going wrong
Users converting JPEG photos to JPEG XL with Switcheroo, a Linux image-format converter, report that the output can end up larger than the source.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
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