For me it's HEIF. I love it because it's smaller and higher quality than JPEG, but literally nothing supports this format. It's annoying that I have to convert to JPEG or PNG to do anything with my images. Luckily HEVC seems to get more support on the video end of things.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

HEVC is proprietary.

AV1 is what we need. And a lot of newer hardware finally supports it.

[–] veniasilente@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

AV1 is for video though? JPEG-XL is patent-free, better performant than most or all alternatives, and made for images.

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly, it seems to be common for new people to think hevc is just like avc but better. It is a format that is just a pain to work with, and is barely supported as compared to h264.

Even streaming services are sick of that format and rather use h264 or AV1.

[–] ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Honestly I just don't like how HEVC compression ends up looking. It looks like everything has had noise added and then smoothed over, and I can always see it. AV1 or AVC are also my personal pics. AV1 for filesize and AVC for compatibility.

[–] traches@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Takes forever to encode though

[–] ulterno@programming.dev 0 points 1 week ago

Yeah, almost as long as AV1, depending upon settings.