

The AVIF format is compatible with high dynamic range images as opposed to image formats including WebP, JPEG, JPEG2000, PNG, and GIF. The new format is supported by several well-known companies, including Apple, Google, VideoLAN, Facebook, and Netflix.

HDR support is another critical advantage over other formats. The use of this format is also royalty-free, it offers better compression than existing image formats, and it supports a broader range of features than existing formats. AVIF is a newly developed image format making images smaller while preserving their quality without degradation.

This specification describes how to store images or image sequences compressed with AV1 in HEIF format. The AV1 Image File Format (AVIF) was developed by the Alliance for Open Media (AOM) and is designed specifically for image files.
