Why “avif” is being discussed
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All the formats we are talking about here (JXL, AVIF and WebP) have FOSS royalty-free encoders and decoders.
by xigoi · Sep 15, 2026
Ah, an accusation of misquoting. I actually quoted your exact words minus "is" and "it supports". I think we disagree on the degree of flexibility, for sure. A cap on layers (un…
by janwas · Sep 15, 2026
We can agree on wanting a better internet :) I participated in the design of those filters, so no, I do not deeply dislike the way they look. This gaslighting is not convincing.…
by janwas · Sep 15, 2026
> Sure, that was kind of my point, but I think it's important to point out it's the default. I had read somewhere else in the comments that they just "happened" to use 2 passes…
by juliobbv · Sep 15, 2026
Luckily, 4:4:4 AVIF is supported in Firefox, Chrome, and Safari, right now. This won't ever regress.
by computerbuster · Sep 15, 2026
I was even more surprised & disappointed to see this dismissed as an ad for my company. Think about how fantastic JPEG XL would be for my company: an image codec with tons of fa…
by computerbuster · Sep 15, 2026
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AV1 Image File Format is an open, royalty-free file format specification for storing images or image sequences compressed with AV1. Read more on Wikipedia