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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by leeoniya on Monday March 16, 2015 @03:38PM (#9213813)
is it possible to have pixel-perfect animations (avoid compression artifacts completely) while using h.264 or VP8 and still get good filesize?

also, what about alpha transparency? video formats do not have this. GIF is shitty for video clips, but it's not without uses. it just needs to be replaced by APNG [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG

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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by sb057 on Monday March 16, 2015 @04:32PM (#9214190)
VP9 has lossless encoding support.

http://base-n.de/webm/VP9lossless.html

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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by leeoniya on Monday March 16, 2015 @04:38PM (#9214226)
apparently there's also hints of alpha channel, but basically no support for it outside of chrome's experimental flags:

http://updates.html5rocks.com/2013/07/Alpha-transparency-in-...

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