Google Is Already Experimenting With WebP2 As Successor To WebP Image Format

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Google Is Already Experimenting With WebP2 As Successor To WebP Image Format

Google engineers are already working on WebP2 as the next-generation version of their still image file format...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Google-Experimental-WebP2

[ms178]

When you thought one standard will rule them all (AVIF) a new one comes along...

[davidbepo]

why even do this? WebP is already good, for the best u want AVIF

[Old Grouch]

I suggest supporting JPEG XL instead, which incorporates techniques from FLIF. The world does not need another half-baked format. Unfortunately, if it is incorporated into Chrome...

[cl333r]

why even do this? WebP is already good, for the best u want AVIF

Yeah, and why bother creating a new WebP2 when AVIF is already finished and known to be better than WebP2?

[AmericanLocomotive]

Well, considering a bunch of Google Suite products don't even support importing WebP yet...

[birdie]

So is it still based on VP9 or it now uses AV1? Or it has its own VP9 implementation? I'm confused.

[OneTimeShot]

I'm almost at the point of saying that maybe JPEG isn't good enough for a 4k image... but, yeah, it's really hard to justify yet another image format.

I'll wait to see which one is still around in 10 years' time.

[Templar82]

I think I have only seen the original webp in the wild once...

[tildearrow]

And everyone forgot about FLI-

I suggest supporting JPEG XL instead, which incorporates techniques from FLIF

Ughhhhh