> Even YouTube is preparing to move beyond AV1 and begin streaming video using AV2, potentially as early as 2027. If a company handling the enormous amount of video that YouTube does sees the benefits of a more efficient format, shouldn't the rest of the internet be taking a closer look at what we can do with images and video too?
not an odd argument. AVIF is based on AV1, so what they mean is that since we accept YouTube's AV1 usage as mainstream nowadays, so should be it's image part
Enough keyframe-based "image" formats, please! The internet and the world at large needs a real and proper modern format, not some quick hacks from bored engineers that only contribute to the endless fragmentation online and do not leverage any existing infrastructure for serving video. There's more than just crappy ultra-low-quality thumbnails around. WebP, AVIF are the webscale equivalent of serving images.
Because whenever I download an image and its webp, the next thing i do is i google "webp to png/jpg" conversation because yeah service XY or Tool Z doesn't support it.
Or my Fire TV Stick :(
I configure my nginx to serve everything available though. Thats what i can do.
You could make an argument that we should have AVIF everywhere on the web. But if you want a single image format to be everywhere, I think JPEG-XL is just better suited. AVIF has restrictions on resolutions and number of planes, and doesn't do lossless very well. It's competitive with AVIF on lossy image quality (even though yes, AVIF does seem like it tends to consistently have the advantage there).
Image formats goes in era, and there's no need for monoculture. But given we're talking exabytes of data, for this era, the author rightly articulates why AVIF should win. Should JPEGXL2 beat it in the future then it can take over for a decade. We seem to essentially have gone through like 4 formats so far: gif, jpg, PNG and webp. On vector side, SVG has no real competition - it's solid.
Odd argument.
Image isn’t video and we are not YouTube.
I added AVIF support to my personal image resizing tool recently - https://tools.simonwillison.net/image-resize-quality - I mostly use that for screenshots though, and WebP works better for those.
Interesting! Better in terms of more quality preserved or smaller file size? Have you found other types of images where this applies?
https://symbiogenesis.github.io/DotJpegli/
However, video would matter so much more than images, to the overall internet, that images don't even matter by comparison.
Because whenever I download an image and its webp, the next thing i do is i google "webp to png/jpg" conversation because yeah service XY or Tool Z doesn't support it.
Or my Fire TV Stick :(
I configure my nginx to serve everything available though. Thats what i can do.
I’ll just drop my AVIF local support for Wordpress plugin here: https://github.com/ddegner/avif-local-support
JPEG XL vs. AVIF for web use-cases
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50120224
In terms of picture quality for given size, AVIF has it solidly beat.
"We should use AVIF for most web images" is a different statement which I have no problem with.