Somebody save my CPU.
Not only is everything smaller, but the codec looks better. Compression artifacts when AV1 is really pushing it at lower bitrates are more like… pointillism? They resemble grain instead of the fuzzy squares you can get with 264 or 265, and it is especially better in dark scenes.
ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 8 hours 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.
sailorzoop@lemmy.librebun.com 7 hours ago
Thank you for your TED Talk. I had no idea about the creator of AVIF or anything, BUT, I still really like that I can just use the same knowledge when it comes to transcoding jpegs/whatever to it. It uses the same codec, same parameters, supports animations, is like 1/100th the size of gifs…
I guess webp can do that latter part as well, but having a single tool able to do these things is neat in my opinion. (Please don’t come at me, systemd haters)
I think jxl also supports waaaaay higher resolutions and everything. So yeah, fair argument that I’m not, in any way, against.
Compression and accessibility are just really fascinating things to me, and I’m sure once the next huge, well-supported thing, comes around, so will I.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I converted most of my images to .jxl. It’s been pretty nice.
haerrii@feddit.org 7 hours ago
I wonder how we’re feeling for HEIC? Any drama/pros/cons I should know of? As AAPLs weight is behind, I wonder if we’ll get browser wars for this decades’ image formats.
blah3166@piefed.social 6 hours ago
HEIC faces a few struggles with adoption:
AV1 and AVIF don't have any of these issues –someone correct me if I'm wrong or missing something– so anyone is able to include/distribute the software and modify to their needs.