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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by CharlesW on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:10PM (#44302733)
New compressed media formats always travel a decade-long path from either (1) obscurity → contender → universal support or (2) obscurity → contender → forgotten curiosity. AV1 is on one path, WebP is on another.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by Andrex on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:34PM (#44302981)
As someone who doesn't follow this stuff, which is on which path?
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by CharlesW on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:03PM (#44303333)
WebP remains fairly esoteric after 15 years, has always been a solution in search of a problem, and isn’t even universally supported in products by its owner.

AV1 was created and is backed by many companies via a non-profit industry consortium, solves real problems, and its momentum continues to grow. https://bitmovin.com/blog/av1-playback-support/

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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by graealex on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @08:53AM (#44309470)
Funnily enough, JPEG2000-support was eventually removed everywhere. I assume the only reason this didn't happen with WebP as well is Google pushing and keeping it in Chrome.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by wongarsu on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @09:57AM (#44309949)
Also the Google's lighthouse benchmark pushing webp recommendations, and people listening to it because of SEO concerns
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by graealex on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @10:16AM (#44310114)
True. I mentioned JPEG2000 because it had a similar fate, in particular no real reason to use it in the first place.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by modeless on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @03:49PM (#44303160)
AV1 is on the path to universal support and WebP is on the path to obscurity.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by tedunangst on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @04:37PM (#44303666)
Apple CPUs have AV1 support in hardware.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by consp on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @06:44PM (#44304792)
So does every modern GPU. This is nothing special.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by airstrike on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @10:26PM (#44306123)
I think you're arguing the same point—that there's plenty of support and it's arguably growing.
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Re:Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web After 30 Years (2024) by zimpenfish on Wednesday June 18, 2025 @01:25AM (#44306893)
Only support for decoding and from A17 Pro and M3 onwards, I believe? Going to be a few years before that's commonly available (he says from the work M1 Pro.)

[edit: clarify that it's decoding only]

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