- Mar 12, 2022
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Real hero.So apparently Jxl is the new standard but no one uses it. It's pretty good lol it's 3-5x smaller in size and supports lossless compression and many other shit no one really cares about.
Here are 2022.01-03 in zip files converted to JPG. I used squoosh.app to convert from jxl to JPG.
I tried to find a GUI that does the conversion client-side, but I only found websites that do it client-side (one by one if I might add).
PS: I figured it out how to open .jxl files natively on windows. Is kinda tricky, but having the hole sets in 18GB is awesome. Specially if the previous ones, up to 21/08 were around 21GB (also, having a duplicate anoys me. Personal taste.). Is a .dll file, so, I advice you to take it step by step if you don't want to screw it up (If you're a geek like me, just proceed as usual like adding a hack or a key for software). The guide on the webpage is a technical one, that's why I make it a little bit easier and understandable to make it right.
Here you can find the .dll file: https://github.com/saschanaz/jxl-winthumb
- Install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2022 if it's not already installed.
- Download the latest .dll file from the releases page (the webpage it will guide you to the latest release extension, just download the jxl_winthumb.dll file , not the other ones. Those are for geeks who want to view and edit the file extension.)
- Open a terminal window as administrator (right click windows button on task bar and select task manager in admin mode, an alt is searching cmd.exe in task bar and open as admin)
- Copy and edit this code: regsvr32 ""FileFolder"\jxl_winthumb.dll". For example: if the file is in windows downloads, the file folder will be "C:\users\"Test"\downloads\jxl_winthumb.dll". The "Test" is the username, the one that you got on windows startup.
- It will give you a pop-up window telling you that the .dll file was added succesfully. From now on, the files with .jxl extension will load in file manager and it will open with the classic photo viewer (not the windows 10, the one from windows 7 pals. XD)
Hope it can be useful.
PS2: It might be obvious, but, spanish is my native language. So, you already know something about me.