Support AVIF Image format

[shisht]

AVIF Image is not supported by Obsidian,
Please add support for it,
I checked that Obsidian can display both WEBP and AVIF image formats but doesn’t support it.

There are some big things Obsidian doesn’t has,
→ Inline Editing
→ img HTML5 Tag support for relative URLs
→ audio HTML5 Tag support
→ WEBP/AVIF Image formats Support
→ Ability to configure which folders to Ignore inside Vault

Thanks
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[pikatwinky]

I second this. Having avif support inside obsidian could be kinda useful

[firefoxic]

I support an acute shortage of each of these features (although webp is already supported, but not avif).

[sergy]

+1 It would be cool

[Facni]

I’m here to support this idea and no let it die.

[thek3nger]

Bumping this because AVIF is very good.

[brimwats]

indeed; seems better than .webp! Is WebP really better than JPEG? – siipo.la

[ipasikun]

I am waiting for a AVIF image support. The format is much better than web and takes less space which is cool for Sync.

[aoz]

bumping this! Also added resources to demonstrate how simple of an upgrade in support this should be. Essentially catching up with the Chromium upstream supported images types for embedding should be all there is afaik.

Supported image formats: .png, .avif, .webp, .gif, and .jpg/.jpeg.

Noted forum posts:

• Bug graveyard: Support for AVIF format images – User remarks chrome already supports rendering avif and will do so when an avif extension is changed to a “supported” one
• Feature Request: .HEIC Image Format Support – Obsidian team explains why HEIC/HEIF won’t be supported since chrome doesn’t support it
• Feature requests: Support JPEG XL (JXL) file format for attachments/embeds – JPEG-XL conversation grows after chrome rejected bringing it back

Important references:

• Chromium Supported Codecs – Audio/video
• Chromium WebCodecs Test Files Src – Chrome tests support for .png

[soywiz]

I’m trying to edit a jekyll website using Obsidian. In there I was using .avif images replacing the old jpg and png images, so the website is more lightweight. And this is how it looks with obsidian:

It should be trivial to support .avif. Likely just add a string in a place there a “png” and “jpg” is. So please, could you add it?

[WhiteNoise]

will be implemented v1.5.3