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Webm's definitely been getting some traction as a replacement, if 4chan's support is anything to go by.



How trivial/fast is it to encode gif to webm?

I see many "big" webm videos on 4chan, much bigger than gifs. (in dimensions, not in bytes) and they are still smaller (in bytes) than the (dimensionally) smaller gifs.

Wouldn't it bring a huge traffic shrink, if every uploaded gif was converted to a, probably, tiny webm?


That's what twitter does.




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