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Re:H.264 is Magic (2016) by aaaaaaaaaaab on Thursday March 17, 2022 @02:05PM (#30714133)
>For images, there's a finally successor to jpeg

We've heard this a few times... JPEG2000, WebP, HEIF, AVIF. I bet JPEG XL will finally be it!

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Re:H.264 is Magic (2016) by yjftsjthsd-h on Thursday March 17, 2022 @02:21PM (#30714292)
In the specifics: WebP is pretty popular in my experience.

In general: I expect that eventually something else will win, even if it takes a long time. There's too much room for improvement for the ecosystem to fossilize just yet.

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