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		ZeroGravitas on July 20, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: AnimGIFs need a better codec This is one side if it, 4chan's webm is another, various 3rd party hosts, shims and polyfills are in between. I'd like to see Mozilla and Google capitalize on this to help spread royalty free codecs How does webm decoded in JavaScript compare with a gif for video? Is there a subset (beyond removing all audio) that could speed thinks up?

derf_ on July 20, 2014 [–]

> How does webm decoded in JavaScript compare with a gif for video? Is there a subset (beyond removing all audio) that could speed thinks up?

https://wiki.xiph.org/Ogv.js

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