Noticeable color shift

[hiforrest]

The avif image compression resulted in a noticeable color shift, with the cyan area in the top-left area becoming darker. This issue isn't just a one-off; I've tested multiple images, and they all show a clear discrepancy in colors.

Command：
avifenc.exe "SP_2024-04-17_18-42-48.png" "SP_2024-04-17_18-42-48.avif" --min 15 --max 20

Windows 10
libavif v1.0.4

20240418.110417927.mp4

Image files：
avif before after.zip

As a reference, here is a compressed version using convertio.co. This version does not have obvious color deviation.
SP_2024-04-17_18-42-48_1（by web）.zip

[vrabaud]

Though I see the color shit in your video, I do not see it in Chrome. Can you please try in your favorite browser to see if the color shift is there too? Thx.

[hiforrest]

hi @vrabaud, Thank you for paying attention to this issue. I was playing around with the Edge browser and decided to compare how an avif format and its original png version looked across different apps - Edge, Windows Photo Viewer, and Directory Opus. I made a video to show what I found: the colors match perfectly in Edge, but not in the other apps. It's pretty strange.

This makes me wonder why avif images look different depending on the app use. I'm really hoping to get that consistent, true-to-color experience across the board, like what Chrome offers. Got any ideas or fixes? Would love to hear your thoughts!

avif.20240420.001859386.mp4

[tongyuantongyu]

The color shift is due to Windows's decoder using BT709 matrix, despite signaled as BT601 in file. If you add --cicp 1/13/1 the color will match. This is a bug in Windows AVIF decoder.

Note that on some old Windows version, the AVIF decoder also ignores the color range and always use limited range.

The web version is using RGB colorspace so is not affected.

[hiforrest]

@tongyuantongyu,

Wow, you're an absolute legend! 🙌 You explained the color shift and delivered the solution effortlessly. Thanks a lot for clarifying this tricky color shift issue.

[wantehchang]

@tongyuantongyu Hi Yuan. Have you reported the bug in the Windows AVIF decoder to Microsoft? If not, I can try to report it.

[tongyuantongyu]

@wantehchang I didn't report myself, but there's a report: https://aka.ms/AAqboe7 that likely refers to this bug. It may help if you are able to report it to the team in Microsoft more directly.