Author Topic: AVIF Support Please  (Read 125 times)

Offline jkm

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AVIF Support Please
« on: December 28, 2025, 09:46:34 PM »
When will PM support AVIF?

It is the absolute best image format there is today, supported by 95% of browsers, the only viable replacement for JPEG (second place option has only 13% support at most), better performance than HEIF, etc., etc.

I'm attaching just one screenshot of thousands of experiments done by researchers on massive image set sets. All the results point towards AVIF as being far higher quality with far less decoding time and much smaller file sizes than any other option (JPEG XL is in a very distant second place, WebP in third, and JPEG is not even on the map).

I am probably going to cancel my subscription if it is not supported.

I cannot even read my own companies files now, which started using AVIF officially in August.

For me, Photo Mechanic is obsolete if it doesn't not become part of the 95% that supports AVIF, like most modern software has done since 2023.