AVIF – AV1 based image format

Re:AVIF – AV1 based image format by Adamantcheese on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @02:34PM (#16803842)

So it's basically what webp is to webm? Also how does it compare to my favorite image format, FLIF? http://flif.info/

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Re:AVIF – AV1 based image format by pornel on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @07:52PM (#16806813)

It's more like a PowerPoint document with any number of WebM embeds and other files.

HEIF/AVIF is a complex kitchen sink of all the features that a mobile camera app may dream of, so it supports arbitrary collections of images and videos, e.g. "live" photos, tiles, bursts, subtitles, multiple layers, multiple versions.

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Re:AVIF – AV1 based image format by chungy on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @04:31AM (#16809123)

So it's basically the new MNG?

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Re:AVIF – AV1 based image format by TD-Linux on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @04:40PM (#16805109)

FLIF has much better lossless compression than AV1 but much worse lossy compression.

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Re:AVIF – AV1 based image format by bhouston on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @03:04PM (#16804125)

About 95% smaller than FLIF I would think.

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Re:AVIF – AV1 based image format by adamzochowski on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @03:14PM (#16804209)

How is it 95% smaller? FLIF is a lossless compression, and AV1 in lossless mode can't do magic. It can't do 95% better.

https://wyohknott.github.io/image-formats-comparison/report....

FLIF is reported at 59.57% avg space savings

AV1 (2018-02-22) is reported at 66.02% avg space savings

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Re:AVIF – AV1 based image format by notatoad on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @04:23PM (#16804963)

presumably it's 95% smaller because it's not limited to lossless mode?

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Re:AVIF – AV1 based image format by simcop2387 on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @06:09PM (#16805991)

FLIF is also not limited to lossless mode, http://flif.info/lossy.html

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Re:AVIF – AV1 based image format by zaarn on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @02:44AM (#16808633)

And FLIF's lossy mode is as good as AV1's?

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Re:AVIF – AV1 based image format by simcop2387 on Monday April 16, 2018 @08:57PM (#16854474)

That part I don't know. I haven't seen a comparison between them, but it's compared well at least against BPG, or whatever the h264 based format was. I don't think i've seen a comparison against h265, let along AV1. It'd be interesting to see. Even if they're about as good, I like FLIF's setup better since it enables progressive decoding which could be a big step up for slower connections.

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