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Are they actually GIFs? Some websites use looping videos and call them GIFs, even though they’re H.264 in MP4 or something like that.
by cornstalks 2y ago
Are they actually GIFs? Some websites use looping videos and call them GIFs, even though they’re H.264 in MP4 or something like that.
- cl3misch 2y agowebm seems to be the modern replacement for GIFs in browsers. I would suspect gifs.com supports them. Somehow their site is buggy for me atm so I could not test it.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoWhere are WebM files used? Safari browsers/Apple don't even support it.
- cornstalks 2y agoThey do now. At least on desktop. But it is a more recent feature (within the last few years, I can’t remember when exactly). MP4 with H.264 is still king for compatibility, but WebM with VP9 isn’t as bespoke as it once was.
- edflsafoiewq 2y agoAccording to https://caniuse.com/webm https://caniuse.com/webm, desktop Safari is green since 2022, while iOS Safari is green since two months ago.
- NayamAmarshe 2y agoI wish WebM could be the standard. GIFs shouldn't even be used in 2024. It's a format of the past, with no upsides. I usually only need GIFs for GitHub readmes. GitHub doesn't support WebM autoplay videos. In texting, Telegram has introduced WebM stickers so there's at least a choice there.
- edflsafoiewq 2y agoNote that Github does support the slightly better animated WebP... as long as you change the file extension to .gif :)
- NayamAmarshe 2y agoWhoa! Really!? I gotta try that!
- qingcharles 2y agoThe extension trick works in all sorts of place. And in reverse too. You can often upload an animated GIF to sites that don't support it by just changing the extension to .jpg or .png.
- Gormo 2y agoWebM is just a container format, though it's usually used with VP9 and opus, and is functionally equivalent to using any other kind of actual video. Animated GIFs remain quite useful for non-video animations where you don't want lossy compression, and want to use other GIF features like transparency. Animated PNGs are a potential replacement, and support all of the features of GIFs along with 24-bit color, but software support remains lackluster.
- NayamAmarshe 2y agoThey do have an option to download GIFs
- sandreas 2y agoAka "gifs with sound" - I always asked myself who came up with this absurd term ;)
- latexr 2y ago> Some websites use looping videos and call them GIFs That’s exactly what they’re doing. Just used the web inspector on one of their GIFs. Imgur does the same thing.
- recursive 2y agoNot from here. Here's one I got from their front page. https://j.gifs.com/qjOKXp.gif https://j.gifs.com/qjOKXp.gif The content-type response header is image/gif.
- jonnybarnes 2y agoInterestingly you can change the `.gif` to `.mp4` and you get a video _with_ audio.