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Comment by pkulak

4 hours ago

We have to apply some weight to the fact that one is open, one isn't, right?

EDIT: Oh! Of course. AVIF is based on AV1. For some reason I was thinking HEIF the entire time I was reading the article. Man... withdrawn!

Really good read, btw. Very good points.

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computerbuster  4 hours ago

AVIF is royalty-free, & SVT-AV1 and libaom are open source.

Edit: saw you corrected. Much appreciated!

  • dannyw  4 hours ago

    SVT-AV1 is also more than just open source in name only; development and discussions happen in the open; with many community forks that’s now getting upstreamed/merged.

    It is a true open source project; not just an open source license.

    • computerbuster  4 hours ago

      SVT-AV1-PSY was the first fork, and I created it. When the project matured, the maintainers reached out directly to get things merged – I can confirm it is a great project with great people who are very easy to work with.