What is the difference between jpg and jpeg formats?

There is no difference between jpeg and jpg. They are the same. jpg is the abbreviation of jpeg.

jpeg is the abbreviation of Joint Photographic Experts Group (Joint Photographic Experts Group) and is the first international image compression standard.

JPEG images store a single bitmap with 24-bit color. The image compression algorithm can provide good compression performance and relatively good reconstruction quality, so it is widely used in the field of image and video processing.

The files with these two suffixes are essentially the same. Strictly speaking, the extension of JPEG is .jpeg. However, due to the 8.3 file naming principle of the DOS era, PCs use the extension of .jpg. , since Mac does not limit the field length of the extension, so the suffix name of .

jpeg was used on Apple computers at that time. Although Windows can now support extensions of any length, everyone has become accustomed to it. It is called .jpg, so there is no forced correction. This situation is similar to the difference between .htm and .html.