alt Hacker NewsI thought it was pretty well established that JXL has a big room for improvement when it comes to encoders. There are some fundamental limitations wrt the absolute lowest bitrates, but that the room for improvement in encoders is rather substantial, especially with things like rate-distortion search heuristics.
The comparison is more about who has had the most man-hours and megadollars put into encoders quality than about the inherent limitations about the format.
With that said, I use AVIF, but I do have what can be said to be an irrational preference for JXL.
> but I do have what can be said to be an irrational preference for JXL.
Is it irrational to follow the collective "one format to rule them all" dream? Sure, the codec itself needs work, but seeing how long we've been stuck with the JPEG/PNG/GIF trio (even with better encoders like mozjpeg/jpegli or optipng/zopfli) with TIFF as a catch-all backup, getting the format right once and for all really matters.
I'm still weirded by the low amount of workforce in libjxl/jxl-rs; sure, too many cooks do ruin the broth, but too few too, in that domain.