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Oavif: Faster target quality image compression

44 points| computerbuster | 4 months ago |giannirosato.com

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thekid314|4 months ago

Thanks for posting this, really interesting!

I've been building a wordpress plugin that converts JPEG to AVIF on the local server (since everyone wants to sell a service to convert in the cloud).

As a photographer who wants high quality photos on their portfolio website I love how AVIF respects color more the webp.

https://github.com/ddegner/avif-local-support

computerbuster|4 months ago

Very cool use case! 4:4:4 support + 10-bit color make AVIF very compelling here.

paulbgd|4 months ago

Super cool! I wonder if the same technique could be useful for video encoding too.

shmerl|4 months ago

AVIF adoption is still lagging behind unfortunately. Even GitHub and GitLab didn't enable it yet despite pending feature requests.

miladyincontrol|4 months ago

I mean to be fair writing is on the wall some when a superior format like jpegxl exists but is arbitrarily held back purely because Google's Chromium team wants to push the format they made over the format another Google team worked on.

Superior in file size, image quality, computation required for equivalent quality encoding, no arbitrary resolution caps, progressive decoding which also lets you create 'thumbnails' or resizes by just cutting the byte stream, while also having features to help legacy jpeg files benefit from newer compression losslessly. The only benchmark avif bests at is abhorrently low quality levels that no one genuinely uses.

userbinator|4 months ago

Good. These files in a format that I can't easily manipulate with existing tools are a major hassle. Stay with GIF, JPEG, and PNG.