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Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF by DCKing on Monday December 04, 2017 @12:10PM (#15845437)
To be quite fair, the only reason the community adopted these is because it's the only format that works across all browsers. If Safari and IE had supported free video codecs they would have very likely supported that.

By the way, MP4 is a completely open standard (open does not equate 'free') and is free to use for videos that are also freely distributed. Of course there are also free and open source implementations of the codec. Being patent encumbered sucks but in principle there should be no practical limitation for gifs at least.

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Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF by user5994461 on Monday December 04, 2017 @01:29PM (#15846213)
This makes no sense. mp4 is not a video format.

mp4 is a container. It typically contains an audio stream and a video stream. The streams are encoded and the majority of the formats are patented with license fees.

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Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF by cbhl on Monday December 04, 2017 @01:45PM (#15846341)
ISOBMFF is the new TIFF -- it can contain just about anything. Heck, Apple have started using it for images, too (that's what HEIF is).
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Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF by ornitorrincos on Monday December 04, 2017 @05:01PM (#15847977)
while not really helping the base patent issues, cisco does offer binaries for the openh264 codec with all royalties paid for
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