Comment by shmerl

2 months ago

> AV1 is also the foundation for the image format AVIF, which is deployed across browsers and provides excellent compression for still and animated images

I wish adoption was better. When will Wikipedia support AVIF?

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bjoli  2 months ago

What does it bring over jpegxl?

  • shmerl  2 months ago

    Way wider browser adoption, potential to evolve together with AV#, since it's using a container format, so it shouldn't be limited to AV1 base. I.e. sites just need to adopt AVIF, and I expect then seamless ability to start using AV2 (and on) there without sites needing another wave of adding a new mime type and etc. which seems to be a huge hurdle.

    Same as let's say Webm can contain AV1, AV2 etc.

    • lawrencejgd  2 months ago

      It doesn't matter that AVIF uses the same container for AV1 or AV2 based encoding, if the browsers don't have the right decoder for it then they can't decode it.

      An example of this is MP4: Browsers can decode videos encoded with H264 in MP4 containers, but not H265 even if it uses the same container, because one thing is the container and another thing is the codec, they're related but they aren't the same.

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gsich  2 months ago

Hopefully never. Abusing Intra-frames from video codecs is an abomination. Use JPEG-XL.