Jake Archibald on Nostr: I still don't get the point of animated AVIF. AVIF is an image format derived from a ...
I still don't get the point of animated AVIF. AVIF is an image format derived from a video format, AV1. We don't need an extra video version of image format.
One thing you can do with animated AVIF: Animation with an alpha channel.
But… this really just highlights how dumb it is that AV1 doesn't support transparency.
Also, with animated AVIF, the alpha channel is a separate image per frame. It's really bad for compression.
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