Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "My hot take on image formats" video.

  1. Not that you'll read this, but I'd actually prefer we just stick with the old works-everywhere formats. PNG's and JPEG's were good enough and if you're using an older computer you probably can't update it to use the newer format because you can't update either your hardware or your software. As it turns out for me, I can't open AVIF except through the browser and AV1 encoded video plays like a slideshow. I have a few means for converting WEB/P, but it's awkward to deal with and I can't really browse my local files if they're encoded that way. However, there are two points that need correcting. The first is that JPEG doesn't have a lossless option, because it actually does and was added to the standard back in 1993. Most tools can't work with it, but nevertheless it does exist in the standard. The second is that PNG's don't have compression because they most certainly do. I can only conclude that you meant that in a different way. If you meant to say lossy, well, there are compressors that allow you to have lossy compression with PNG files, such as `pngquant`. There are others, but it seems to be the best at it as far as I'm concerned. If you meant something else I can't think of what.
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  2.  @Winnetou17  As far as hardware acceleration is concerned, I've got a computer that's only about 3 years old yet I have no acceleration for AV1 formats. Even playing video with Firefox it's basically a slideshow. And software adoption is pretty bad because I can only open such images with a browser. I've at least got 3 or 4 image viewers that can open WEB/P images, but not a single one knows what to do with AVIF.
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  3.  @petrkdn8224  I can mostly agree with this, except bitmaps aren't obscure and while they're not common in the web space now, they were very common some years back in both the desktop and web spaces and are still used quite a bit in some places for their ease of generation.
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