# JPEG Is a Family of Formats With Different Decoding Requirements

DevFeed: [JPEG Is a Family of Formats With Different Decoding Requirements](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/one-of-these-jpegs-is-not-like-the-other-41621.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/not-all-jpegs-are-the-same>)

Author: ben@benjojo.co.uk

Published: 2021-11-19T10:47:26Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [benjojo blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/benjojo-blog.md>)

Topics: [Encoding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/encoding.md>), [format](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/format.md>), [Compression](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/compression.md>), [Decoding](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/decoding.md>), [Hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hardware.md>), [Software](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/software.md>), [hdmi](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/hdmi.md>), [intel](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/intel.md>)

Tags: [compression](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/compression.md>), [decoding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/decoding.md>), [encoding](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/encoding.md>), [format](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/format.md>), [hardware](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hardware.md>), [hdmi](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hdmi.md>), [intel](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/intel.md>), [software](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/software.md>)

## AI overview

An exploration of JPEG as a family of formats rather than a single uniform format, focusing on hardware and software decoding, compression, and a failed attempt to transmit JPEG data through HDMI equipment.

## Source excerpt

One of these JPEGs is not like the other "JPEG" or the image encoding specification by the "Joint Photographic Experts Group" (JPEG) is a truly universal format at this stage. You really cannot go very far on the internet without seeing a JPEG file