AVIF Knowledgebase
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What is a AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) file?
AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) is an image file format specification for storing images or image sequences compressed with AV1 in the HEIF file format. It competes with HEIC which uses the same container format, built upon ISOBMFF, but HEVC for compression. Version 1.0.0 of the AVIF specification was finalized in February 2019..
What are the AVIF Technical details?
AVIF supports features like: High dynamic range; 8, 10, 12 bit color depth; Lossless compression and lossy compression; Monochrome (alpha/depth) or multi-components; Any color-space including: wide color gamut, ISO/IEC CICP and ICC profiles; 4:2:0, 4:2:2, 4:4:4 chroma subsampling; Film grain..
What's the File extension(s) of AVIF?
AVIF file extension includes ( .avif ).
What's MIME of AVIF?
The MIME of AVIF is image/avif, image/avif-sequence.
What's the developer of AVIF?
AVIF developed by Alliance for Open Media.
What's the type of format?
AVIF is a Raster image .