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H.264 is Magic (2016)

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Re: H.264 is Magic (2016)

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PSA: For images, there's a finally successor to jpeg: JPEG XL (.jxl) - has lossy and lossless mode; is progressive (you can download just the first parts of the bitstream to get a lower resolution image; and other benefits!) https://jpegxl.info/

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Re: H.264 is Magic (2016)

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Did they avoid the prohibitive licensing that left JPEG 2000 dead in the water?

should be FOSS and loyalty free https://gitlab.com/wg1/jpeg-xl/-/blob/main/LICENSE

There's this MS patent though?

https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/17/microsoft_ans_patent/

Re: H.264 is Magic (2016)

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See also H.265: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Video_Coding And now even H.266: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile_Video_Coding Also, at what point will AV1 become "mainstream"? How prevalent is it? Still seems that hardware decoding (never mind encoding) support is still only so-so.

What I think the AV1 initiative neglects as a way of spreading their tech would be giving away a great open implementation of an encoder. x265 and x264 spread their respective codecs all over the internet through pirated content, which forced adoption. The fact that you can play .mkv files almost anywhere now is a testament to that.

Re: H.264 is Magic (2016)

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Apple is also on the Blu-ray board of directors but AFAIK have never supported either playback or mastering of Blu-ray in any of it's products.

Isn't their non-support more a consequence of the fact that they haven't shipped a single product with an optical drive since 2012? Like, you can obviously plug a $100 external Blu-Ray writer into any of their computers, but I think between the competition with their own digital distribution platform and the "bag of hurt" that is DRM nonsense, I can understand them not being interested in explicitly supporting it but…

> but still caring about the direction that it takes since they are a media and devices company, and the decisions made there impact them.

Agreed, but with a sinister connotation.

While I am absolutely not accusing Apple of it, let's not forget that all companies want the inside track on any tech that could threaten profits, and may join these organizations to guide them away from decisions that are not in the companies' interests.

Re: H.264 is Magic (2016)

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PSA: For images, there's a finally successor to jpeg: JPEG XL (.jxl) - has lossy and lossless mode; is progressive (you can download just the first parts of the bitstream to get a lower resolution image; and other benefits!) https://jpegxl.info/

Lossless JPEG transcoding is the killer feature moving forward from existing images. I can't wait for jxl's broad adoption.

If it's fast enough maybe it could be done in browser? Instant backward compatibility!

Re: H.264 is Magic (2016)

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PSA: For images, there's a finally successor to jpeg: JPEG XL (.jxl) - has lossy and lossless mode; is progressive (you can download just the first parts of the bitstream to get a lower resolution image; and other benefits!) https://jpegxl.info/

Whatever happened to FLIF?

Re: H.264 is Magic (2016)

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PSA: For images, there's a finally successor to jpeg: JPEG XL (.jxl) - has lossy and lossless mode; is progressive (you can download just the first parts of the bitstream to get a lower resolution image; and other benefits!) https://jpegxl.info/

As a professional photographer I can’t believe we’ve been stuck with jpeg so long - 8 bits simply aren’t enough and lossy saving is a bummer. I’ll need both Capture One and Lightroom to support whatever gets decided on though, and that could take a while.

try out darktable, its way more capable of a raw editor then those two and usually gets support for new export formats fairly fast.
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