Fans of the spec bemoan lack of transparency in Interop 2024 process
  • Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla have announced Interop 2024, a project to promote web browser interoperability.
  • JPEG XL, a potential replacement for JPEG and PNG image formats, was not included in Interop 2024.
  • The rejection of JPEG XL has been blamed on Google, with the Google Chrome team deciding not to support the image compression technology.

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  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
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    5 months ago

    I mean there are advantages to using AV1 for photos… Hardware accelerated decoding being one.

    Decoding a large AVIF image grid should in theory work on a GPU and happen faster with less power than any software based image format implementation.

    AV1 is also just an awesome format that’s entirely free to use out of the gate.

    • RayJW@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      13·
      5 months ago

      Well yes, however without acceleration JPEG XL is many times faster. Also if you only have a CPU for example.

      It’s also highly parallelizable compared to AVIF which also matters a lot considering the amount of cores is growing with the likes of ARM and hybrid architecture CPU.

      AVIF also fairs badly with high fidelity and lossless encoding, has 1/3 the bit depth and pretty small dimension limits for something like photography.

      I don’t think AVIF is per se a bad format. I just think if I want to replace a photo oriented format I’d like to do that with one that’s focused on „good“ photos and not just an afterthought with up- and downsides.