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AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade with AVIF v1.2.0

65 points by breve

by jauntywundrkind

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The layering reminds me a bit of opus 1.6 which similarly maintains backwards compatibility while laying in better audio for newer decoders, (and as a scalable decoding for those who don't want to use as much decode compute). https://opus-codec.org/demo/opus-1.6/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284313

by dagmx

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This is pretty cool. There’s a dearth of higher bit depth formats that are also compressed.
EXR and TIFF are really the only ones most people use but this opens up a fairly interesting option now for use cases where size is important.
Does this extend to the video codec? This would be pretty amazing for media reviews if so.

by Santosh83

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So when will support come to libavif, libaom, aom-tools and concerned packages? Are they pushed on to Arch already? Or still just upstream github for now?