Daala progress update
Interesting to see they're also applying Daala to still images. It's a very different set of constraints and optimizations than video.<p>My first instinct was to wonder how it compared to Bellard's recently featured BPG image format [1], which achieves impressive quality at low sizes. Turns out you can check this by selecting "HEVC" in Xiph's image comparison, since that's the core method employed by BPG.<p>[1] <a href="http://bellard.org/bpg/" rel="nofollow">http://bellard.org/bpg/</a>