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Looks like JPEG XL didn’t make it in the end. Kind of baffling, considering it’s the first image format bringing solid improvements across the board in a very l
by F3nd0 3y ago
Looks like JPEG XL didn’t make it in the end. Kind of baffling, considering it’s the first image format bringing solid improvements across the board in a very long time. I was hoping Interop might finally be what forces Google to stop effectively blocking its adoption, but apparently we’ll have to keep waiting as the half-baked replacements for the ubiquitous old formats keep piling on.
- no_wizard 3y agoI was also saddened by this. I don't know what Google's problem is with JPEG XL.
- paulddraper 3y agoBecause AVIF is already a thing. And is comparable for images and superior for video.
- watersb 3y agoI could imagine hardware vendors telling the software platform creators to standardize on an image codec. Might be slightly encouraged to pick the image format that matches a video codec that's already widely supported by hardware IP.
- F3nd0 3y agoAVIF hasn’t been around much longer than JXL, has it? Only a year or so. Since both of them are image formats, I assume that by ‘video’ you refer to animated images, in which case yes, AVIF (being based on an actual video codec) seems to perform better. Same with very low-quality pictures. For higher quality JPEG XL still seems to do better, and seems to do much better for lossless encoding. (AVIF struggles to even compete with WebP on that front, if I recall correctly.) Not to mention very useful features like progressive decoding, lossless JPEG recompression, or no practical limit on image size. Yes, AVIF is a thing, but why? Is it worth missing out on an actual full-fledged replacement by refitting yet another video codec into an image one in a rush? That’s just like acting before thinking and then going on to say “oh well, what’s done is done”. And perhaps there’s nothing we can do about it, but it’s still irritating.
- paulddraper 3y ago> AVIF hasn’t been around much longer than JXL, has it? Only a year or so. For better or worse, it has much higher adoption. JPEG XL is supported by Safari, and.....well no that's it.
- zokier 3y agoOn web. Outside web the situation is more complex. iirc many camera manufacturers push HEIC, some editing software prefer JXL, and AVIF is kinda around too.