{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/FLIF-hub/FLIF/issues/79","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/FLIF-hub/FLIF/issues/79/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/FLIF-hub/FLIF/issues/79/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/FLIF-hub/FLIF/issues/79/events","html_url":"https://github.com/FLIF-hub/FLIF/issues/79","id":110856116,"number":79,"title":"Why have both lossless and lossy compression in the same image format?","user":{"login":"PaintNinja","id":3158390,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/3158390?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/PaintNinja","html_url":"https://github.com/PaintNinja","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PaintNinja/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PaintNinja/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PaintNinja/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PaintNinja/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PaintNinja/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PaintNinja/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PaintNinja/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PaintNinja/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/PaintNinja/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":5,"created_at":"2015-10-11T13:39:30Z","updated_at":"2015-10-11T14:28:56Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Please forgive me if this is obvious, but why are modern video and image codecs/formats opting to have both lossy and lossless compression under the same file extension?\r\n\r\nI see it as a disadvantage to do this, as it would make it harder to find a lossless version. Imagine if all FLACs could be either lossy or lossless, but you never knew until you downloaded it - wouldn't that be a waste of time?\r\n\r\nDo you have plans on having a different file extension for lossy FLIFs than lossless FLIFs?"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/FLIF-hub/FLIF/issues/comments/147202833","html_url":"https://github.com/FLIF-hub/FLIF/issues/79#issuecomment-147202833","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/FLIF-hub/FLIF/issues/79","id":147202833,"user":{"login":"jonsneyers","id":15010068,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/15010068?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/jonsneyers","html_url":"https://github.com/jonsneyers","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jonsneyers/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jonsneyers/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jonsneyers/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jonsneyers/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jonsneyers/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jonsneyers/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jonsneyers/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jonsneyers/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/jonsneyers/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-11T14:28:56Z","updated_at":"2015-10-11T14:28:56Z","body":"Lossy FLIF is not high on my priority list, it is a can of worms.\r\n\r\n If it would have the same extension, then the header would say it is lossy. But you can never be sure that something is lossless -- you can always quantize or downsample and then save that 'losslessly'."}}