How to convert avif to jpg on Ubuntu

avif2jpeg is a command-line tool to convert images from the AVIF format (a modern, efficient image format) to JPEG. This tool is part of the libavif suite.

1. Installation of libavif (includes avif2jpeg)

On Ubuntu (including 22.04), you can install libavif-tools:

bashCopy codesudo apt install libavif-tools

This package includes avif2jpeg.

2. Basic Usage

To convert an AVIF image to JPEG:

bashCopy codeavif2jpeg input.avif output.jpg

3. Quality Settings

By default, avif2jpeg uses a high-quality setting. If you want to specify the JPEG quality (1-100, where 100 is the highest quality):

bashCopy codeavif2jpeg -q 90 input.avif output.jpg

4. Batch Conversion

To convert multiple AVIF images in a folder:

bashCopy codefor file in *.avif; do avif2jpeg "$file" "${file%.avif}.jpg"; done

5. Display Help

To see all options available for avif2jpeg:

bashCopy codeavif2jpeg --help

This command will list additional flags and options.

6. Example

Convert an AVIF image named image.avif to JPEG with default settings:

bashCopy codeavif2jpeg image.avif image.jpg

And with a quality setting of 80:

bashCopy codeavif2jpeg -q 80 image.avif image.jpg

This should help you easily convert AVIF images to JPEG using avif2jpeg.