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    It's 2018 and this shit is ridiculous, verging on environmental concern... not only are they shit quality for full colour video and absolutely huge files it takes a shit ton more energy for a modern device to download and play a gif than an mp4.

    Recent example from gif animation thread:

    1920 x 1080 px, 16 million colours original video with audio
    length: 2:34
    Size: 25.6MB

    630 x 356 px, 256 colour TINY GIF
    length: 2:02
    Size: 206.9MB

    The mp4 uses a third of the CPU required to play the gif on my machine (at full resolution with sound)

    Fully appreciative of the art but usually when I see my own gifs they're recirculating with logos slapped on them at double the filesize and half the quality. It's been 25 years of fun, but I'm going cold turkey on making and posting the fuckers. QBN any chance of some better format embeds? Think of the children!!!

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    • also the gif is lower framerate, i'd say overall it could be 50x energy consumption to play a gif than mp4kingsteven
    • I can't really open the gif animation thread anymore without boiling my laptop's innards.Fax_Benson
    • yep it's actually a bit of a ghost thread these days... entire page of gifs runs on one core and my last 3 mac upgrades have reduced single core performance.kingsteven
    • this post should be a threadLMFAO
    • << good pointsBennn
    • hah, thought about starting a thread but foresaw a gif flood from compuserve apologists.kingsteven
    • I opened the gif animation thread last winter to keep warm.shapesalad
    • the size of the gifs posted here and elsewhere has become fucking ridiculous. especially when on shit Australian 3rd world country internet speeds.inteliboy
    • hahaha shapesaladdetritus
    • Tomorrow is Earth day. I encourage everyone to not open the gif animation thread for one whole hourdrgs
    • Environmental concern? Holy cow.Hayoth
    • 'verging on'... think about it man, every gif on the internet over a certain size/ length/ colour depth is using hundreds times more energy than equivalent mp4kingsteven
    • be great if gifs didnt show up on the front page. Kills my laptopmugwart
    • Gifcoin – converts the energy used to display gifs into crypto currency.shapesalad
    • ^ Gif animation thread now worth billions.shapesalad
    • gifs are best at short 2-3 sec loops. Doesn't everyone know that?docpoz
    • if you found that in the gif animation thread, it's your own fault for not watching it when it was posted prior in the vid of the day thread. you're an enabler.imbecile
    • +1grotesk_neue
    • @imbecile thanks for giving me the option not to watch it :-Dkingsteven
    • use .gifv https://help.imgur.c…mekk
    • gifv is mp4 (or sometimes webm) in a wrapper. but yeah, if you upload a gif to imgur or any of the other big hosts, it converts it to video, then back to gifkingsteven
    • when you request a .gif extension. so there is really no point in optimising a gif unless you want the visual effect or you're hosting it yourself.kingsteven
    • Pewdiepie did a video on this too.robthelad
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