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		cbhl on Aug 17, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and... I'd love to know your thoughts on using WebP (image format that supports animation) versus WebM (video format) for GIFs. Do you think it's worthwhile? If not, why?

jdiez17 on Aug 17, 2014 [–]

We haven't looked much into WebP as an animation container. And since it's only supported by Chrome (and will likely remain that way) we are not currently considering it. WebM and MP4 both have pretty good codecs for video; definitely a lot better than GIFs, that's for sure.

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