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Pivooto claims compression denser than WebP

A clever Dutch game developer based in Eindhoven developed a new, very efficient compression engine, originally targeted for handheld games. He named the engine Pivooto and used the name for their company too. Hugo Smits, the CEO and founder, came up with the name Pivooto by combining the words photo and pivot. Files uses the extension .piv. Pivooto is a ...

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A clever Dutch game developer based in Eindhoven developed a new, very efficient compression engine, originally targeted for handheld games. He named the engine Pivooto and used the name for their company too. Hugo Smits, the CEO and founder, came up with the name Pivooto by combining the words photo and pivot. Files uses the extension .piv. Pivooto is a raster graphics file format that supports lossless data compression for images and animations on the web. Smits claims that using Pivooto allows web developers to create smaller images and animations that make the web faster. Smits says their lossless animations
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