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Doesn't seem to much too relevant for image codecs though, no? Decoding 10s of still images on a CPU for a webpage that'll be used for minutes versus 10s of del

by tambre 3y ago

Doesn't seem to much too relevant for image codecs though, no? Decoding 10s of still images on a CPU for a webpage that'll be used for minutes versus 10s of delta images in a much more complicated video coded aren't quite comparable. I don't think we have much deployment of WebP or AVIF hardware decoders yet the formats have widespread use and adoption.

Joel_Mckay 3y ago
WebP has problems (several unreported CVEs too), and is essentially another tga disaster under the hood. Anyone smart keeps those little monsters in a box. =) What I am seeing is the high-water-mark for WebP was 3 years ago... It is already dead as a format, but may find a niche use-case for some users. Consider built-in web-cams that have hardware h264 codecs built-in, as the main cpu just has to stream the data with 1 core. Better battery life for both the sender and receiver. Keep in mind a single web page may have hundreds of images, and mjpeg streams are still popular in machine-vision use-cases. As most media/gpu hardware is now integrated into most modern browsers, the inertia of "good-enough" will likely remain.. and become permanent as patents expire. =)