Re:JPEG XL: How It Started, How It’s Going
by GuB-42 on Thursday July 20, 2023 @07:56PM
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I think that's because video is a much more active and complex topic than still images.
We are still using image formats from the 90s, and their matching containers, and they are good enough, so there is not much work for going beyond that. There is no real incentive for making a more flexible format. By comparison, video is the biggest bandwidth hog and people care a lot.
And mkv supports video, multiple sound tracks, subtitles,... All using different codecs made by different people (ex: h265+opus or vp9+vorbis, or any other combination). An image container usually only has the image and a few metadata.
We are still using image formats from the 90s, and their matching containers, and they are good enough, so there is not much work for going beyond that. There is no real incentive for making a more flexible format. By comparison, video is the biggest bandwidth hog and people care a lot.
And mkv supports video, multiple sound tracks, subtitles,... All using different codecs made by different people (ex: h265+opus or vp9+vorbis, or any other combination). An image container usually only has the image and a few metadata.