• MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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      Yeah it uses the AV1 video codec for compression. Which go figure, works really well for images, too! And the format can do animated images, too.

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        Cool, a replacement for GIFs too.

        Next you’ll tell me you can add sound to it and make AVIFs with sound, won’t you?

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        Someone once said something to the tune of “Imagine if GIFs could have sound”, to which people pointed out that those are just called videos.

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        I actually decided to use avif on my project. But both this and webp is as fast as I know, not supported in any default image viewer on windows. Which is rater annoying, but I moved on to better programs for tgat anyways.

        Avif is second to jxl though, some of the downsides of being a video format is that you loose progressive loading (only top to bottom iirc), degrades on re-encodes, and some other things I can’t think of. Avif gets a win because if you have a av1 decoder you already have a avif decoder too! But since it is a video frame essential there are some downsides since some image specific features can’t or won’t be added.

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          Also if you have video in AV1, you can rip out Group Of Frames from it and package in avif without any loss.