With the exception of PNG, patented industry media formats have always been the status quo. Deal with it.
Henry Wood
PNG is just fine, unless you have a 200GB drive
Nolan Baker
>Will HEIF + HEVC be the next-generation web image format that finally liberates us from the enduring mediocrity of JPEG / GIF / PNG? >licensing fees Nope. But you can count on AV1 / whatever is called their image format.
You can implement hardware acceleration + it will render faster + takes less space + nothing to lose. I don't see a good reason not to upgrade.
Gavin Robinson
>and most likely everyone else but Google and Mozilla You mean the maintainers of the two most popular web browsers, without which no web image format could ever hope to gain traction?
Jaxon Taylor
we webp here
apple can try to push it though
Liam Hernandez
poor BPG ;_;
Ayden Morales
Is it free for anyone? Apple is one licensors of H.265 so it wouldn't have to pay.
Hudson Richardson
There's a decent chance they could succeed. Considering the relative success of HLS (which Apple created to improve the live streaming of their keynotes, and had the nice benefit of originally only working in Safari), flipping a switch and suddenly having all of the billion-ish iDevices in the world producing HEIF files could very quickly propel it forward and force Google/Mozilla/Microsoft to add support.
Jack Baker
when the fuck is ms-paint going to get layers?
Adam Hernandez
HEVC is a terrible codec.
Brandon Nelson
Like you making retarded comments, This doesn't mean I can't hope for a better future.
Easton Lee
YOU HAVE TO PAY TO USE IT: the implementation is free but without a patent grant you still have to pay HEVC. Probably a superior image format will be developed once en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOMedia_Video_1 is released.
Colton Jackson
Hardware-accelerated decoding wouldn't help at all with PNG's bloated file size.
No one will use AV1 (or WebP or any of Google's other freetard meme formats) because it is a legal minefield, with the real looming possibility that companies would begin suing over patents the moment it gains mass adoption.
MPEG-LA exists precisely for this reason; to pool vendors' patents and guarantee that (licensed) implementations of their standards is safe.
