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Enabling Animated AVIF in Firefox 111

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Chris Griffith Overview 0

With the latest Firefox Nightly 111.0a1 you can now view AVIF sequences!

Raspberry PI 8mm Scanner

Posted on December 8, 2022 by Chris Griffith Uncategorized 0

Building a better 8mm scanner, a story (not a guide!)

Python patterns only beginners use

Posted on October 31, 2022 by Chris Griffith Coding Overview 0

There are a few things that you won’t ever see senior Python developers committing to code, but may not be explicitly taught. Most of these things you won’t even see senior programmers doing in their small side scripts. However you should never see or write these...

Using AVIF and HEIF images with Python / PIL

Posted on September 15, 2022 by Chris Griffith Coding Overview 1

Modern image formats come with huge quality and compression improvements, but at the cost of accessibly until there is wider adoption. Right now (2022-08) Pillow, PIL’s primary fork, doesn’t have support for either AVIF or HEIF of the box. But thanks to other packages we aren’t...

AMD improves video encoding yet again! This time with Pre-Analysis

Posted on August 11, 2022 by Chris Griffith Video 6

AMD made some impressive quality jumps a few months ago when they re-introduced B-frames to their H.264/AVC hardware encoder. Now they went and did it again with AMF 1.4.26 by adding temporal Pre-Analysis, which detects scene changes and can better insert index frames where needed. While...