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by garblegarble 4004 days ago
At least one image hosting site[1] is going in the opposite direction, converting GIFs to H.264 videos to save bandwidth and CPU time. They don't show playback controls - although (in Chrome, at least) you can right-click and enable controls.

1: https://imgur.com/blog/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/