Re:When a video codec wins an Emmy
by jitl on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @08:33AM
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My Fujifilm X100VI shoots HEIC/HEIF, which is like the AVIF of H.265/HEVC. It seems to offer better compression than JPEG while having smaller file size. iPhone does this too. Why are you calling it an abomination?
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Cameras should start using AVIF. HEIF is completely DOA for anything, same as H.265 is.
Re:When a video codec wins an Emmy
by lern_too_spel on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @11:02AM
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HEIF is the container format shared by AVIF and HEIC.
Yeah, good point. I meant HEIC (image codec), not the container.
I hope everyone switches over to AV1 or AV2 stills so we can have completely open image pipelines but It’s silly to say something is “DOA” when it’s been in use for 9 years (since 2017) by one of the world’s most popular consumer cameras (iPhone) and is now popping up in high end cameras. The company I work for (Notion) long ago had to start supporting HEIF uploads because a ton of our users expect their pictures to just work.
It'd still call it DOA if Apple are the only ones keeping it around. No one else is and no one else really cares. Also I think they have an ulterior motive - they are part of those who profit from patents on it. So they likely want to keep it around longer than others.