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by maxst 3021 days ago
If 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.
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Video formats like webp exploit temporal and spatial similarities to get efficiency. Gif/apng do not. This reduces bandwidth costs and file sizes very much.
Download a dozen random GIF cinemagraphs, and try gif2webp and gif2apng on them.
Try ffmpeg or vlc instead, you will get much better results. Ffmpeg has support for almost all video/audio formats ever invented.