Why converts lemmy.world *.gif to *.mp4 ?

Isn’t *.gif more popular and easier to show direct/automatical in any browser and app?

  • Lumidaub@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    What, really? I may be showing my age here but I always assumed that gifs, comprising nothing but a series of pictures, are way less complex than any video format, which is made to accommodate audio and subtitles and whatnot. Has that changed sometime in the last 20 years?

      • Lumidaub@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        GIFs are an average of 5-10 times larger than an efficiently encoded MP4 video

        So an automated process like Lemmy uses is efficient enough to do that? In my head, there exists a brain, somewhere, and I can’t even get digital copies of my dvds down to any manageable size without fiddling with Handbrake endlessly.