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Re:PNG Is Back by bmacho on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @06:28AM (#44375646)

I tried these examples on ezgif, and indeed apng manages to be smaller than webp every single time. Weird, I thought webp was almost always smaller. Is this because GIF images are already special, or apng uses better compression than png?

edit: using the same ezgif webp and apng on a H.264 source, apng is suddenly 10x the size than webp. It seems apng is only better if the source is gif

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Re:PNG Is Back by Aissen on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @07:37AM (#44376096)

I have no idea! I actually hoped someone would show a much more comprehensive and serious benchmark in response, but that has failed to materialize.

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Re:PNG Is Back by fc417fc802 on Wednesday June 25, 2025 @11:34PM (#44383964)

I would guess that apng only wins when indexed colors can be used. That guess would match what you saw using an h264 file for the source.

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Re:PNG Is Back by account42 on Thursday June 26, 2025 @05:34AM (#44385690)

Almost like video codecs and animated images are different niches that optimize for different content.

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