news.ycombinator.com• Apr 15, 2018• 1 min read
AVIF and audio/video; create a normal format like “AOM” (AOMedia)AVIF is based on HEIF, which means it can also contain audio (sic!) and subtitles. Why not make a new format and name it like AOM (AOMedia)? AV1 for video, AA1 for audio, AS1 for subtitles. Yes, you will need to re-invent, but you will immediately make a normal format, which will not be embarrassing to let in the masses. There will be a single ecosystem that does not oblige to support all that obsolete garbage from the WEBM.Wishes:1. Thumbnail should be encoded AV1, why do you need JPEG here?2. At the beginning of the file (magic number) you can use "aom". And then add "a" if file contain audio, "v" for video, "s" for subtitles. The order of additional designations is exactly what was called earlier ("avs").3. Would not prevent a gradual download, as in the FLIF format. It would be nice to do this by default, but it's already impossible, right? AV1 is already standardized...4. Try to make the design of the format more minimalistic, you do not need to do "if it's here, then there, other