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by empyrical 1931 days ago
I really hope that HEIF animations can take the place of GIFs someday.

http://nokiatech.github.io/heif/comparison.html
1 comments
gruez 1931 days ago
>I really hope that HEIF animations

considering that HEIF is based on HEVC, wouldn't "HEIF animations" just be HEVC videos?

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empyrical 1931 days ago
Basically what this commenter said, but substitute WebP and WebM for HEIF and HEVC

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26298606

GIFs have a nice convenience to them that straight-up video files lack

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