So it's a good thing that content producers like Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix are members of AOMedia. Facebook in particular would benefit from an AV1 still image format.
We'll see wide spread use of 12bit HEVC
Not for web video. VP9, for example, has twice the installed base of HEVC. The royalty-free licensing of AV1 (and HEVC's patent licensing mess) will encourage quick adoption of AV1. The fact that AV1 also out-performs HEVC is a nice bonus.
HEVC has no future on the web. That future belongs to AV1, and it's not too far away. Netflix wants to start encoding to AV1 in the second quarter of this year.
owners of all the said patents agree for it to be so
They've already made that commitment by joining AOMedia. They've agreed to abide by AOMedia's patent license.
said patent holders you are basically living on borrowed time
There is no borrowed time. The whole point of the alliance is to build a royalty-free video codec. That's what it's aimed at and all the contributors to AV1 are aware of the issues. Do you have any evidence that AV1 won't be royalty-free or is this just more idle speculation?
Do we really need lossy compression for still images any longer?
Yes. Smaller images saves bandwidth for everyone. A company like 500px from the article wants the bandwidth savings. Netflix wants AV1 for video for the same reasons, which is why they and other content providers are members of AOMedia.
How can the parties participating in AOMedia be sure that no non-participating party holds essential patents that cover AV1?
How can any parties participating in any format development be sure that no non-participating party holds essential patents that cover their new format? It's a pointless argument.
AOMedia is going out of its way to avoid patent problems. That's the best anyone can ever do.
BPG is based on HEVC. The patent licensing situation around HEVC is a complete mess with three different patent pools from which you need to get three separate licenses from and some HEVC patent holders (like Technicolor) are not in any patent pool so you also need another license from them.
Fortunately, AV1 is licensed under royalty-free terms and has no such hassles.
Yes. AV1 outperforms JPEG and PNG. WebP (based on VP8) also outperforms JPEG and PNG. WebP never saw much adoption but AV1 (a descendant of VP8) has a better chance given all the organsiations supporting it.
PNG doesn't replace JPEG. JPEG enables lossy compression for a smaller file size, PNG does not. AV1 has both lossy and lossless modes. AV1 lossless outperforms PNG. Lossless WebP (based on VP8, an ancestor of AV1) also outperforms PNG.
AV1 outperforms JPEG. AV1 delivers a smaller file size at the same quality or better quality at the same file size. Try this comparison of JPEG and AV1 at the same file size.
Firefox solves your problem. Go Hamburger menu -> Customize -> Check the Title Bar check box and click Done. You'll have the full title bar on your window.
it's with all scripts because any of them can be malicious
Then NoScript or uMatrix can help you. uBlock Origin's advanced mode is also very powerful if you want to stick with the one add-on (which is better for the sake of simplicity).
Already it's being exploited and wasting everyone's computing power to scrape up cryptopennies
By default uBlock Origin includes a block list to protect against resource abusing scripts, such as coin mining scripts. And, if you think the default block list is not enough, you can add additional block lists to uBlock Origin like the NoCoin list. So protect yourself with uBlock Origin and browse happy.
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Waterfox have the performance improvements from 57~beyond
No. Waterfox is still based on Firefox 56. Waterfox will just keep falling further behind.
How exactly is he in the US? He's an australian.
Murdoch became an American citizen in 1985.
the content producer needs to drive the adoption
So it's a good thing that content producers like Amazon, Hulu, and Netflix are members of AOMedia. Facebook in particular would benefit from an AV1 still image format.
We'll see wide spread use of 12bit HEVC
Not for web video. VP9, for example, has twice the installed base of HEVC. The royalty-free licensing of AV1 (and HEVC's patent licensing mess) will encourage quick adoption of AV1. The fact that AV1 also out-performs HEVC is a nice bonus.
HEVC has no future on the web. That future belongs to AV1, and it's not too far away. Netflix wants to start encoding to AV1 in the second quarter of this year.
owners of all the said patents agree for it to be so
They've already made that commitment by joining AOMedia. They've agreed to abide by AOMedia's patent license.
said patent holders you are basically living on borrowed time
There is no borrowed time. The whole point of the alliance is to build a royalty-free video codec. That's what it's aimed at and all the contributors to AV1 are aware of the issues. Do you have any evidence that AV1 won't be royalty-free or is this just more idle speculation?
Except of course gold makes nice jewelry.
And gold also has uses in electronics, medicine, and aerospace applications.
Do we really need lossy compression for still images any longer?
Yes. Smaller images saves bandwidth for everyone. A company like 500px from the article wants the bandwidth savings. Netflix wants AV1 for video for the same reasons, which is why they and other content providers are members of AOMedia.
Do you have any evidence AV1 is not royalty-free? These go-nowhere arguments are pointless.
VP8 and VP9 are royalty-free. Baseline JPEG is royalty-free. PNG is royalty-free. Opus is royalty-free. AV1 will be royalty-free as well.
Unless you've got something concrete to prove that AV1 can't be royalty-free, there's nothing more to say.
How can the parties participating in AOMedia be sure that no non-participating party holds essential patents that cover AV1?
How can any parties participating in any format development be sure that no non-participating party holds essential patents that cover their new format? It's a pointless argument.
AOMedia is going out of its way to avoid patent problems. That's the best anyone can ever do.
VP9 remained royalty-free. Why won't AV1?
BPG is based on HEVC. The patent licensing situation around HEVC is a complete mess with three different patent pools from which you need to get three separate licenses from and some HEVC patent holders (like Technicolor) are not in any patent pool so you also need another license from them.
Fortunately, AV1 is licensed under royalty-free terms and has no such hassles.
Do we really need another one?
Yes. AV1 outperforms JPEG and PNG. WebP (based on VP8) also outperforms JPEG and PNG. WebP never saw much adoption but AV1 (a descendant of VP8) has a better chance given all the organsiations supporting it.
PNG doesn't replace JPEG. JPEG enables lossy compression for a smaller file size, PNG does not. AV1 has both lossy and lossless modes. AV1 lossless outperforms PNG. Lossless WebP (based on VP8, an ancestor of AV1) also outperforms PNG.
Of course they are saved as PNG. Saving the output losslessly as PNG allows the comparison to be made without AV1 or HEVC still image support.
Heic is an image container.
You're thinkig of HEIF. HEIC is the file extension convention Apple adopted to indicate a HEIF file which contains HEVC encoded images.
With backing from every major tech company but Apple
No. Apple has joined the Alliance for Open Media. So Apple is an AV1 backer as well.
AV1 will be licensed under royalty-free terms, just like baseline JPEG is.
AV1 outperforms JPEG. AV1 delivers a smaller file size at the same quality or better quality at the same file size. Try this comparison of JPEG and AV1 at the same file size.
i think it's wildly optimistic.
Nope. Pipistrel went ahead and built one.
Yes. They have.
A timeline to switch over before the first successful prototypes been demonstrated
Don't worry. They've been demonstrated.
(Asking for a friend)
Friends don't let friends use Chrome.
I need to be able to see the full title bar.
Firefox solves your problem. Go Hamburger menu -> Customize -> Check the Title Bar check box and click Done. You'll have the full title bar on your window.
I will continue to use Waterfox instead, and also recommend Pale Moon and Basilisk
Why? They're just older, slower versions of Firefox. They all depend on Firefox for upstream development. Might as well just use Firefox.
You haven't made any points. You've just complained, pointlessly.
it's with all scripts because any of them can be malicious
Then NoScript or uMatrix can help you. uBlock Origin's advanced mode is also very powerful if you want to stick with the one add-on (which is better for the sake of simplicity).
Already it's being exploited and wasting everyone's computing power to scrape up cryptopennies
By default uBlock Origin includes a block list to protect against resource abusing scripts, such as coin mining scripts. And, if you think the default block list is not enough, you can add additional block lists to uBlock Origin like the NoCoin list. So protect yourself with uBlock Origin and browse happy.