• ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    The format wars are beginning again!

    I remember the early days of the Internet when .jpg and .jpeg were different depending on browsers, .gif transparency was a wildcard, .png didn’t exist, and Real Player was the best thing for video.

    .avif & .webp are the new kids on the block.

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      3 days ago

      tbh it’s because i am self hosting this stuff on a home nbn connection in australia and a lot of people in europe get very slow speeds to me just through sheer distance so i want to optimise the crap out of these images and videos i post

      webp was working without issue and avif seems to work ok with piefed

      lemmy has this bug

      https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6684#issuecomment-6011335001

      and it looks like a problem with thunder?

      going to stick with it and hope lemmy fixes the problem and i saw thunder was updated recently

      reading up on it more it looks like image compression these days comes out of video compression codecs, so the standards are moving quite a bit faster now

      i think i saw av2 is coming soon