[HN Gopher] AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade ...
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       AV1 Image File Format Specification Gets an Upgrade with AVIF
       v1.2.0
        
       Author : breve
       Score  : 60 points
       Date   : 2026-01-17 11:09 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | dagmx wrote:
       | This is pretty cool. There's a dearth of higher bit depth formats
       | that are also compressed.
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       | EXR and TIFF are really the only ones most people use but this
       | opens up a fairly interesting option now for use cases where size
       | is important.
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       | Does this extend to the video codec? This would be pretty amazing
       | for media reviews if so.
        
       | Santosh83 wrote:
       | So when will support come to libavif, libaom, aom-tools and
       | concerned packages? Are they pushed on to Arch already? Or still
       | just upstream github for now?
        
       | jauntywundrkind wrote:
       | The layering reminds me a bit of opus 1.6 which similarly
       | maintains backwards compatibility while laying in better audio
       | for newer decoders, (and as a scalable decoding for those who
       | don't want to use as much decode compute). https://opus-
       | codec.org/demo/opus-1.6/
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46284313
        
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