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0 pointschefandy2y ago0 comments

What's more confounding about this than translating between any other two formats?

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GIF is a terrible format for video

But it's the only common video format that can be treated like a static image in most cases. Like any other format, it's got its ideal use case.

account422y ago

Animated webp is commonly supported at least on he web these days.

Of course, it too is a horrible video format, which is impressive considering it is based on a not nearly as horrible video format. If only browsers would support silent looping video in <img> and CSS image contexts...

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