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I'm talking about cpu efficiency, not storage space. Video encoding is made to reduce storage at the cost of cpu.

But as long as software treats all video formats like a video with the ability to pause and has a seek bar instead of just being an image then there is still a use case for formats like gif. If everything supported apng that would be great, but almost nothing does. Also for some reason every image I save from the net that claims to be an animated webp gets saved as a gif. I'm not sure why that is, but it doesn't seem like it needs to be that way.



h264 was accelerated somewhere around geforce 6 series in 2004




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