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Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF by Dylan16807 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @03:13PM (#15855342)
Oh, yeah, it definitely resets the compression context between frames. But so does a video format.

No format that I'm aware of supports lossless compression that spans frames. Which leads to a funny situation where some images compress best by custom outputting a .gif or .png with no compression, and then zipping it.

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Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF by Houshalter on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @04:51PM (#15856363)
As I understand it all video compression uses delta compression between frames. And you mention another issue I forgot, that it can't reuse Huffman codes or any common segments between frames. Since they are independently compressed.
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Re:Evolution of <img>: Gif without the GIF by Dylan16807 on Tuesday December 05, 2017 @06:01PM (#15856930)
> As I understand it all video compression uses delta compression between frames.

And so does apng, more or less, via alpha. But that's less important than motion interpolation, which it utterly lacks.

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