Why converts lemmy.world *.gif to *.mp4 ?

Isn’t *.gif more popular and easier to show direct/automatical in any browser and app?

    • Lumidaub@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      GIFs are an average of 5-10 times larger than an efficiently encoded MP4 video

      So an automated process like Lemmy uses is efficient enough to do that? In my head, there exists a brain, somewhere, and I can’t even get digital copies of my dvds down to any manageable size without fiddling with Handbrake endlessly.