Re:Google Is Already Experimenting with WebP2 as Successor t...
by sk65535 on Monday November 16, 2020 @05:42PM
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[one of WebP2 author here]
This 'new' WebP format is not radically different, but just pushes the same use-cases further
(The web. Not archival. Not camera capture.), sticking to simplicity and usefulness.
10 years is a long time since WebP-v1, and techno has evolved since. We can go much lower in bitrate for still-good-enough quality, and that's what we're interested in exploring.
AVIF was designed starting from a video codec, similar to WebP-v1 in the early stages, and this has some drawbacks (that later we needed to correct in WebP, that was confusing).
WebP2 is aiming at images-on-the-web right away, and not as an afterthought.
This 'new' WebP format is not radically different, but just pushes the same use-cases further (The web. Not archival. Not camera capture.), sticking to simplicity and usefulness.
10 years is a long time since WebP-v1, and techno has evolved since. We can go much lower in bitrate for still-good-enough quality, and that's what we're interested in exploring.
AVIF was designed starting from a video codec, similar to WebP-v1 in the early stages, and this has some drawbacks (that later we needed to correct in WebP, that was confusing). WebP2 is aiming at images-on-the-web right away, and not as an afterthought.
More details about the last 10 years of WebP and some WebP2 features: http://shorturl.at/BEMV8