Is WebP really better than JPEG?

Re:Is WebP really better than JPEG? by oefrha on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @12:10PM (#23615848)

Of course any format can be decoded in js or wasm, that’s not an advantage and doesn’t tell us anything. The most important thing for a format is probably vendor buy-in. Why would anyone choose this over HEIF, which also uses HEVC (optional), is backed by MPEG (like it or not, MPEG represents the industry), and has vendor buy-in from Apple and Google? (I know it’s not supported in the browsers, at least not yet, but you can also use a library.)

Also, the latest news entry:

> (Apr 21 2018) Release 0.9.8 is available

Edit: Spoke too soon. “Official” HEIF JavaScript port measures ~500-600k gzipped, so 56k gzipped is an advantage.

https://github.com/nokiatech/heif/tree/gh-pages/js

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Re:Is WebP really better than JPEG? by clouddrover on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:00PM (#23621458)

> MPEG (like it or not, MPEG represents the industry)

Not so much anymore. The licensing fiasco with HEVC has reduced MPEG's relevance, particularly for web video. Here's what Leonardo Chiariglione, founder and chairman of MPEG, says about it:

https://blog.chiariglione.org/a-crisis-the-causes-and-a-solu...

https://blog.chiariglione.org/stop-here-if-you-to-know-about...

And they're shaping up to make VVC (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile_Video_Coding) licensing just as bad.

Leonardo says there is no longer a united MPEG:

https://blog.chiariglione.org/a-future-without-mpeg/

Why would anyone waste their time on a format with complex and uncertain licensing when they can just implement AV1 with its simple, royalty-free licensing?

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Re:Is WebP really better than JPEG? by garaetjjte on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @03:04PM (#23618641)

Also BPG predates HEIF.

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