Is there a good reason why we cannot post AV1 in WebM on 4chan boards now in 2024?
After all, a video file is just that — just a file.
The server should only deliver the given WebM and then let the client deal with the actual codec.
With AV1, for example, it becomes possible to compress unscaled 4K 2160p music videos and fit them in 4chan size limits.
One such example would be the 6MB AV1 video of
https://qu.ax/GcQS.webm which is the recompression of
https://youtu.be/VboS3zloKb8(You may feel compelled to ask, “But why would you do that?”
That's just an example to demonstrate that 4K 4chan is the future.
The actual sources of the future video quotes would not necessarily all have to be music videos, that's for sure.)
A hardware decoder is not a requirement. Most web browsers use some fast software decoder (usually dav1d) that suffice.
You should be able to export AV1 video keyframes losslessly (remuxing them into AVIF files) and, vice versa, you should be able to post AVIF files in disguise of 1-frame AV1 videos in the future.
Theoretically it's even possible to export AV1 video quotes losslessly (remuxing them into animated AVIF files) without the audio.
Previous threads:
>>100406293 and then
>>100443821 and then
>>100461976.