| Some still love real GIFs! My preferred use is cinemagraphs. See the images in this link: https://blog.flixel.com/what-is-a-cinemagraph-how-do-they-wo... True, ‘kids these days’ are oblivious that most GIF hosts don’t host GIFs. H264 (H.264/AVC/MPEG-4 Part 10) is a video compression encoding often paired with AAC audio, often e-delivered inside an .mp4 or .mv4 file container. Imgur’s GIFV file popularized on reddit is a renamed .mp4: https://www.filedesc.com/en/file/gifv Note WebM is an MKV-like container for VP8 video encoding w/ Vorbis audio. You would have to convert (transcode) the video and audio to go between MPEG-4 and WebM. https://www.webmproject.org/docs/container/ Just for fun, GIFs can contain more than 256 colors: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIF#/media/File:SmallFullColou... |
