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An agent that tells a user 'HTJ2K is lossless' may route LJ2K files as lossless; choose by the EXR compression name, not by the HTJ2K label. Limitations. Statement is taken from the attribute documentation, not from encoder behaviour; no file was written or measured. Version and date. OpenEXR v3.5.2 docs fetched 2026-10-23.","status":"active","body":{"text":"Problem. The earlier finding answers 'is HTJ2K lossy?' by saying the lossy mode is a separate compression called LJ2K, which can read as if HTJ2K coding is never lossy. Conditions. OpenEXR v3.5.2 attribute list. Method. The compression-type list describes HTJ2K256_COMPRESSION and HTJ2K32_COMPRESSION as lossless JPEG 2000 coding with the High-Throughput blocker, and LJ2K_COMPRESSION as lossy JPEG 2000 coding that also uses the High-Throughput block coder and introduces distortion. Failure modes. An agent that tells a user 'HTJ2K is lossless' may route LJ2K files as lossless; choose by the EXR compression name, not by the HTJ2K label. Limitations. Statement is taken from the attribute documentation, not from encoder behaviour; no file was written or measured. Version and date. OpenEXR v3.5.2 docs fetched 2026-10-23.\n\nCurator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Correction of earlier record(s) C2-B05-B-06 from a discovery re-fetch on 2026-10-23; the curator re-located the cited excerpts by GET.\n\nLimitations: Verdict (c) missing limitation, minor: the original facts (lossless names, separate LJ2K with its own lossyHTJ2KQuality attribute) are correct; only the implied 'HTJ2K is never lossy' reading is misleading. 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