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aPNG was never accepted by the PNG standards body, and tends to be as large or larger than GIF[1]. If we're going to go through the effort of converting, then W
by xd1936 9y ago
aPNG was never accepted by the PNG standards body, and tends to be as large or larger than GIF[1]. If we're going to go through the effort of converting, then WebP makes way more sense.
1. https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/01/animated-png-format-compare-animated-webp-gif/ https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/01/animated-png-format...
- maxst 9y agoIf you convert static GIF to static PNG, 99% of the time you'll get a smaller file. That was the original goal of PNG project, and it succeeded: static GIFs disappeared completely. Converting animated GIF to animated PNG leads to similar filesize savings.
- innagadadavida 9y agoVideo formats like webp exploit temporal and spatial similarities to get efficiency. Gif/apng do not. This reduces bandwidth costs and file sizes very much.
- maxst 9y agoDownload a dozen random GIF cinemagraphs, and try gif2webp and gif2apng on them.
- innagadadavida 9y agoTry ffmpeg or vlc instead, you will get much better results. Ffmpeg has support for almost all video/audio formats ever invented.
- yoz-y 9y agoIt seems to me that WebP is more of a replacement for "animated" JPEG than PNG. http://littlesvr.ca/apng/gif_apng_webp5.html http://littlesvr.ca/apng/gif_apng_webp5.html in these comparisons apng has the edge. Ideally we could have both. Sadly Apple is not willing to add webp/webm support to safari.