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I mean there are advantages to using AV1 for photos… Hardware accelerated decoding being one.
Decoding a large AVIF image grid should in theory work on a GPU and happen faster with less power than any software based image format implementation.
AV1 is also just an awesome format that’s entirely free to use out of the gate.
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