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Update from the 10th of July 2022
Well you know what, they should be. The Alliance for Open Media uses a far saner patent approach. Even though their solutions are not as entrenched into silicon as MPEG properties, they proved to be more efficient both in video with AV1 and in still pictures with AVIF.
In a way, good riddance to them, their royalty model and their patent pool system that makes any innovation practically impossible unless you got big pockets. Here’s to hoping for more competition in that space. An of course, let’s raise our glasses to the companies on board with AOM, the ones that implemented the reference tools and browser support. AVIF is an exceptionally versatile image format even if it does not consistently beat webp.