Video cheaper than animated gif?

entropicdrifter · on April 14, 2021

Yeah, lower bandwidth requirements and most computers/all smartphones have dedicated video decoding hardware, especially for h264.

prophesi · on April 14, 2021

Hinted at with lower bandwidth requirements, but the biggest win with video is their stellar compression. GIFs store every single color value, which is why they get so huge so quick.

adrusi · on April 15, 2021

GIFs use run length encoding, which usually makes them quite good for pixelly art, but not when you apply a bunch of vfx.

app4soft · on April 14, 2021

Yep. For example, here is Fill's GIFs site[0], where comic animation on pages represented as video instead of GIF.[1]

    ...
    <video autoplay="" loop="" muted="">
      <source src="/video/aa3d713c20ba03cc3f87b36e9a947857.mp4" type="video/mp4">
    </video>
    ...

[0] https://fill.com.ua/

[1] https://fill.com.ua/gif/zagostrennya