diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e8e97ea9..af2ea748 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,5 @@ aiosqlite
 beautifulsoup4
 platformdirs
 pyyaml
-# imagecodecs provides JXL/AVIF encode/decode with full ISOBMFF control
-# brotli provides metadata compression for JXL/AVIF custom boxes
-imagecodecs
-brotli
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+# brotli — ISOBMFF (AVIF/JXL) metadata decompression
+brotli>=1.2.0
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