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Re:Time.gif by icebraining on Saturday August 12, 2017 @04:04AM (#14996957)
The main advantage is that, because a video format rather than an image that can loop, the player can discard past frames. The GIF method is probably constantly leaking memory.
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Re:Time.gif by dom0 on Saturday August 12, 2017 @05:16PM (#15000017)
> The GIF method is probably constantly leaking memory.

If the browser only keeps compressed frames, 16 GB will last for more than a year.

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Re:Time.gif by tylerhou on Saturday August 12, 2017 @04:11AM (#14996977)
GIFs can be non looping, but I'm not sure whether that flag is set at the beginning or end of the format.
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Re:Time.gif by LoSboccacc on Saturday August 12, 2017 @04:35AM (#14997055)
yeah was wondering at what point chrome would give up, but the gif is only around 250kb per minute (0.004Mb/s)
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