[Feature request] Add support for JPEG XL screenshots due to greater speed and compression

gamescope will currently always save screenshots as lossless AVIF. While AVIF has support for HDR and mostly offers better compression than PNG, it is soundly beaten by JPEG XL (JXL) in terms of speed AND compression while also supporting HDR.

To quantify this I created two datasets and encoded them losslessly to AVIF and JXL. First set: 560 PNG screenshots, 1920x1080, sourced from over 60 games, 1182MB in size Second set: 1300 PNG screenshots, 3840x2160, sourced from over 80 games, 13421MB in size

Encoding

Used were the latest releases of the reference encoders, v0.11.0 for libjxl and v1.1.1 for libavif. Since gamescope uses AVIF_SPEED_FASTEST, which is 10, I used the fastest settings with no additional parameters for both encoders. Since writing to disk always adds a delay I also measured the encoding time if written to /tmp, a RAM disk, same as gamescope's default behaviour. I repeated each encode ten times, five for SSD, five for RAM and averaged the encoding times.

The commands to encode: AVIF: /usr/bin/time -f "%E seconds" parallel -j 16 /usr/bin/avifenc -l --speed 10 {} DEST ::: *.png JXL: /usr/bin/time -f "%E seconds" parallel -j 16 /usr/bin/cjxl -d 0 --effort 1 {} DEST ::: *.png

Encoding results 1920x1080

AVIF:
Encoding time SSD:      09.30 seconds
Encoding time RAM:      09.33 seconds
Compressed size:        1285MB
Size change in Percent: +8.71 %

JXL:
Encoding time SSD:      02.40 seconds
Encoding time RAM:      01.73 seconds
Compressed size:        1088MB
Size change in Percent: -7.95 %

JXL, e2, second fastest setting:
Encoding time SSD:      15.20 seconds
Encoding time RAM:      14.16 seconds
Compressed size:        1012MB
Size change in Percent: -14,38 %

Encoding results 3840x2160

AVIF:
Encoding time SSD:      102.2 seconds
Encoding time RAM:      101.4 seconds
Compressed size:        13334MB
Size change in Percent: -0.65 %

JXL:
Encoding time SSD:      38.80 seconds
Encoding time RAM:      22.15 seconds
Compressed size:        12558MB
Size change in Percent: -6,43 %

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