Here's the promised video of my Nepenthes snacking
I converted into a GIF, but somehow the file size increased from 4 to 120 MB 🥴
So, here's the video :)
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Gif is an ancient format, mp4 is something like 30 years newer, so file sizes are much smaller in mp4. Most "gif" files you see are in fact not actually gif files. "gif" has become a synonym for "short duration looped video"
I didn't realize that, I would have assumed gifs, being a simpler format, would be smaller
Thank you for teaching me something! 😊
Gifs have a compressed look to them because it's quite limited in number of colours it can have. But gifs are acrually uncompressed barely compressed lossless images, similar to .bmp (bitmaps).
Edit: Clarified GIFs are actually compressed, just lossless.
Compressing files efficiently is hard to achieve, that's why the newer formats will produce a smaller file size. As you said, gif is a simpler format, therefore it is less advanced at compressing file size
That plonk sound. Just as satisfying as when you hear it on the loo.
Gif is an ancient format, mp4 is something like 30 years newer, so file sizes are much smaller in mp4. Most "gif" files you see are in fact not actually gif files. "gif" has become a synonym for "short duration looped video"
I didn't realize that, I would have assumed gifs, being a simpler format, would be smaller
Thank you for teaching me something! 😊
Gifs have a compressed look to them because it's quite limited in number of colours it can have. But gifs are acrually uncompressed barely compressed lossless images, similar to .bmp (bitmaps).
Edit: Clarified GIFs are actually compressed, just lossless.
Compressing files efficiently is hard to achieve, that's why the newer formats will produce a smaller file size. As you said, gif is a simpler format, therefore it is less advanced at compressing file size