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@Background Pony #3376
It really is 😇

It’s really quite good🤩— From China

This is still a glorious favorite of mine. 😌

She is just a pony….

@BigBuggyBastage  
I usually just use FFMPEG.
 
Video to GIF:
 
ffmpeg -i input.webm -filter_complex "split[x][z];[z]palettegen[y];[x]fifo[a];[a][y]paletteuse" output.gif
 
GIF to WebM:
 
ffmpeg -i input.gif -c:v libvpx-vp9 -crf 15 -b:v 2M output.webm
 
That’s the easy part though. The real trick is making sure the Video -> GIF conversion results in decent quality without creating an absolutely monstrously-sized file, and ensuring the GIF -> Video conversion doesn’t sacrifice too much quality when converting. Plus, like @DoublePipe said, there’s also the issue of browser support.

@Zeb  
Thanks for the link & info! I wish I could help with the WebM<->GIF stuff, but if I’m honest, my Web Skillz™ are seriously lacking these days. Sure I could kludge something together, but man, it wouldn’t be pretty, let alone elegant.

Gah, I love these images~  
Thanks for the upload!
 
@Rainboom Dash  

 
For the answer to that question, see the second part of this post.  
[Edit] And just now I realize you were the one who asked him that question. So… Nevermind~ heh.

Oh, this is beautiful.

@Ajedi32  
You could also upload APNG (much higher quality and only slightly higher file size)… but… the compatibility is awful
 
 
@BigBuggyBastage  
Yeah… I don’t understand why they don’t add WebM support… it would save a LOT of bandwidth AND would look much better
 
gif is outdated as fuck… why are we still using it?
 
It’s like mp3… WHY DO PEOPLE STILL USE MP3 WHEN MP4 IS 25-30% BETTER FOR THE SAME BITRATE
 
And Opus is another 5% better on top of that… although Opus is still…. experimental
 
Now H.265 I can understand.. H.265 is about 30% better for the same bitrate as H.264 but the compatibility is shit and the DECODING power is a LOT… meaning playback might be a problem for a lot of people
 
Also it takes a lot of power to ENCODE… so mass encoding (like Youtube) is out of the question
 
I’m pretty sure Opus is better than Vorbis and Vorbis is better than MP4… although it’s NOTHING compared to the difference between MP3 and MP4
 
And MP4 is OLD… like… it came out a year or two after MP3 which was like… over 20 years ago

FWIW, I dl’d the 1080p YT video, and converted in VLC to WebM w/o audio; it’s 1080p, the video quality difference is imperceptible from the original, and the WebM file is only 4.40 MiB.
 
Think of the bandwidth….

@Rainboom Dash  
In this case though, the 25 MB file size limit is the limiting factor in the quality of this image. I had to downscale the GIF just so Derpibooru would let me post it.
 
If I were allowed to upload a WebM instead of a GIF file, I could have easily posted the full quality 1080p video without coming anywhere near the 25 MB file size limit, much less exceeding it. That’d have made the quality of the resulting image here much better, while still resulting in a file size less than a third that of this GIF.

@BigBuggyBastage  
We do have Webm format but… all it does is reduce the file size… it’s the exact same quality (possibly even less due to it having to convert it to another format) as the gif

@BigBuggyBastage  
The entire 1080p YouTube video is less than a third the filesize of this GIF and over double the resolution. So yeah, WebM support would be great.

One of those times I really REALLY wish we still had .webm format available.
 
And yes, FWIW, I do have the .WebM checkbox checked in my Settings.
 
Insert “THE SETTINGS: THEY DO NOTHING!!!” joke here. ;)

The still version of this was actually posted over a year ago, but for some reason (probably because it was too big for derpibooru) nobody ever posted the animated version.

Calling It; Trending in at least 72 hours.