卍 AVIF benefits 卍
>95% web browser support
>~80% image editor/viewer support
>now 40-60% better than JPG
>80-90% better than GIF?
>hw accel support growing
>10-bit color precision (even with HW)
>HDR gainmaps backward compatible with SDR displays
>optional progressive rendering for dial-up internet?
>can now achieve very high quality even with 4:2:0 for HW
卍 News 卍
>MAR 2025: High IQ tune threatens JXL https://aomedia.org/blog%20posts/Libaom-3_12_0-Now-Available-from-Codec-Working-Group/
>JUN 2025: Adobe added native AVIF support https://www.cgchannel.com/2025/06/adobe-releases-photoshop-26-8/
>DEC 2025: 16-bit color precision emulation now possible https://aomedia.org/blog%20posts/AV1-Image-File-Format-Specification-Gets-an-Upgrade-with-AVIF/
卍 Getting started 卍
https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libavif
For Images: avifenc --sharpyuv -d 10 -y 420 -q 70 --cicp 1/13/1 -a tune=iq in.png out.avif
Animations: avifenc --sharpyuv -d 10 -y 420 -q 70 --cicp 1/13/1 -a tune=iq --timescale 30 01.png 02.png 03.png out.avif
Lossless RGB VP9 script used to make slideshow webm related:
ffmpeg -framerate 1/3 -i %%02d.png -c:v libvpx-vp9 -r 6 ^
-cpu-used 0 -b:v 0 -crf 0 -qmin 0 -qmax 0 -pix_fmt gbrp out.webm