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You're right, looks like Chrome added it last year, only 9 years after Firefox. h264 is efficient to decode but it's always lossy and gif->h264 conversions have
by opencl 9y ago
You're right, looks like Chrome added it last year, only 9 years after Firefox. h264 is efficient to decode but it's always lossy and gif->h264 conversions have the worst of both worlds qualities of h264 video compression artifacts and being limited to a 256 color palette.
- innagadadavida 9y agomost normal people consuming the content don’t care about it being lossy as PSNR good. That’s the reason why Giphy and others provide an mp4/264 alternate format. Reddit also seems to be embedding mp4/264 instead of gifs.