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Re:AVIF – AV1 based image format by runesoerensen on Tuesday April 10, 2018 @08:43PM (#16807084)
Facebook also posted some performance tests comparing AV1 to x264 and libvpx-vp9: https://code.facebook.com/posts/253852078523394/av1-beats-x2...
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Re:AVIF – AV1 based image format by nothis on Wednesday April 11, 2018 @03:52AM (#16808929)
Does any of this translate to still images? How much better would it be compared to, say, a JPG? I assume somewhat better but it would have to be magnitudes to take over.
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