Why converts lemmy.world *.gif to *.mp4
Why converts lemmy.world *.gif to *.mp4
Why converts lemmy.world *.gif to *.mp4 ?
Isn't *.gif more popular and easier to show direct/automatical in any browser and app?
File size.
What, really? I may be showing my age here but I always assumed that gifs, comprising nothing but a series of pictures, are way less complex than any video format, which is made to accommodate audio and subtitles and whatnot. Has that changed sometime in the last 20 years?
Gifs as an image file format has very poor compression, particularly for complex images. Each frame only contains the parts that are changed from the previous one, so simple graphics with only small parts that change work well. When the image starts getting larger and more detailed, proper video compression becomes much more efficient.
My Smartphones Standard-Video-Format is MP4. But I don't want high Resolution and Tone. Does it make sense to convert it into *.gif and lemmy converts it back to *.mp4? I think not. Next I try to convert my high resolution *.mp4 direct into a low resolution *.mp4 without tone, if there is an easy way.
GIF is a huge waste of space, MP4 can do the same with less than a tenth of the space/bandwidth used.
Not having to wait 10 seconds for a short video to load is nice.