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Google's WebP (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Oddly, reminds me of when Apple first pushed/forced HEIC on all of it's users, without letting them know of course. Because of that, it caused thousands of students to fail their AP exams.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

My Samsung was recording videos in Hevc by default the other day and it was a pain to edit them in Da Vinci Resolve. Luckily Kdenlive handled them without any problems

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Apple just loves having their own media formats

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Big problem with HEIC is it requires H265 licensing because it's effectively a single frame of video. This is why Windows won't open HEIC by default is Microsoft didn't want to pay for the licensing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

My Samsung phone pushes out HEIF photos by default

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

HEIC still catches me out from time to time. So many things just don’t support it

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's sad.

Adoption rate does matter. HEIC currently has a 13.99% adoption, and WebP has a 95.92% adoption rate in web browsers.

So when considering support in softwate, it's more reasonable to pick WebP as default, rather than HEIC.

There are of course other considerations, like compression efficiency, format features, patents, ...