alt Hacker NewsDoes AVIF carry the same patent risks as full/motion AV1?
(I’m not saying I support the claims or not, I have no idea about their technical and let alone legal merit, just thinking that there are attempts at enforcement against sites streaming AV1 and whether choosing AV1 puts say my site at risk)
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chrismorgan • yesterday at 5:52 PM
Yes. It’s just an AV1 container. Doesn’t even need to be limited to a single frame (just like GIF and APNG).
shmerl • yesterday at 5:47 PM
Hard to say, but possibly less since it's a still image, not a video, so it inherently corresponds only to a part of AV1.
No need to worry about these risks for using it though. You can never say that no patent troll will surface tomorrow for literally anything. That's not a reason not to use things.
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Probably not. But if anyone ever decides to enforce patents over AV1 or AVIF, they will fight about every company in Big Tech and quite a bit of Hollywood: https://aomedia.org/about/members/