• pet the cat, walk the dog@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    GIF uses transparency to overlay a frame over the previous one, so colors for the unchanged pixels can be collapsed to the transparent color to get better compression.

    Of course, this is rather primitive compared to anything invented since MPEG-2.

    • Baguette@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 days ago

      Huh the more you know

      Always thought gif was essentially implemented as a slideshow and that modern codecs implement all the space saving that gif doesn’t