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ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

I’ll take any excuse I can get to dump my perspective here. I love AV1 for video and I hate AVIF with a passion. Every video that I create is delivered in AV1, because it is incredibly useful, versatile and extremely powerful. Right tool for the right job.

Not that there’s anything inherently wrong with AVIF other than it tries to force a video codec into something that is that it is not meant for, namely a still image codec. I hate the drama around it that Google has created. Because the stupid cunt that created AVIF is an emotional slime, he tried to block JPGXL, a competitor for AVIF, from having official support in the Google Chrome browser. And because Google Chrome is a monopoly in the browser market, CDNs and other people who’d like to use JPGXL, since it has significantly better all around features for still images, cannot use it now.

Features of JPEG-XL:

And all of that is thrown away because one bastard has his feelings hurt by user choice.

Thank you for listening to my useless TED Talk.

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