GNOME Developer Comes Up With New Animated Image Format

[phoronix]

Phoronix: GNOME Developer Comes Up With New Animated Image Format

Jasper St. Pierre who we're usually talking about on Phoronix due to his GNOME contributions related to Wayland support, shared today he's come up with a new animated image format to compete with GIF...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgxNjc

[dh04000]

If he wants that to be a success, then he needs to make a site that shows it off on animated reddit memes. That would be the maker-or-breaker.

[log0]

<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:A="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" width="640" height="360"><image id="000061" width="100%" height="100%" A:href="data:image/jpeg;base64 ...

go figure

[Ancurio]

Don't any of you dare post that bloody xkcd, I will bite your head off.

[erendorn]

Porn and meme sites seem to replace gif images with small webm files..
Is this any better?

[murraytony]

WebP

No love for animated WebP?

[dh04000]

No love for animated WebP?

I find that buggy personally. I like this solution better.

[FishB8]

Phoronix: GNOME Developer Comes Up With New Animated Image Format

Jasper St. Pierre who we're usually talking about on Phoronix due to his GNOME contributions related to Wayland support, shared today he's come up with a new animated image format to compete with GIF...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTgxNjc

JPEG sequences inside an SVG namespace.

Don't forget animated webp.

[mark45]

WebP or WebM.

I like the latter because it has a pause/stop button. I hate gifs for their shitty quality and for their looping playback which you don't control and because they often play faster than normal which makes my head spin.

[Creak]

I'd really like to know how much we'll gain if we take some GIF and convert them to WebM. What's the compression ratio between these two? We might be surprised..