Add Animated AVIF

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Add Animated AVIF

Post by Stock »

Today, I learned that AVIF truly does it all: Photos, Logos, Transparency and Animation.

Check this out:
https://codecalamity.com/animated-avif- ... o-firefox/
They took a 1080x1080 animation with 60 fps and compared how well GIF and AVIF can display it.

This is the best GIF can do:
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The GIF file is 4.4MB, yet it has been reduced to 256×256, slowed to 15 fps, and only using 256 colors to save as much space as possible.
In other words, the GIF had to be gimped royally, its resolution and FPS quartered only to end up with a 4.4MB file. If they had tried to go full resolution and 60 FPS, the result would have been a horribly bloated file that would take ages to download.

Animated AVIF to the rescue:
Image
AVIF pulls off 1080x1080@60fps plus full color range on top at only 786KB!
If that ain't the future, I don't know what is.

Firefox can display animated AVIFs without any problems,
it's time for XnViewMP to do the same.


PS: I'd love to be able to attach AVIFs in this forum.