JPEG XL (.jxl) image format

[olavrb 1]

For future proofing, it would be great if Emby added general support for JPEG XL (.jxl). It could be used for multiple things, like:

• Storing and viewing photos
• Media metadata (album art)
  • Recompress existing JPEG and PNG losslessly to shave down the metadata database

More info on the format:

• https://jpegxl.info/ 
• https://cloudinary.com/blog/the-case-for-jpeg-xl 

Decode support is probably dependent on support in browsers and OS-es? Apple will have JPEG XL in their next major OS version. More about adoption:

• https://caniuse.com/jpegxl
• https://github.com/libjxl/libjxl/blob/main/doc/software_support.md 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL#Official_support

Edited June 28, 2023 by olavrb

[Luke 38500]

HI, yes I agree we should support this. Currently we use a combination of Skia and libvips for image processing, so the holdup on this would be related to them first adding support for it, e.g.: https://github.com/libvips/libvips/discussions/2055