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		go_prodev on Sept 13, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Video2WebP – convert videos to animated W... Thanks for linking to this, I was looking for something similar today, I'll give it a crack I didn't realize that WebP supported animation. Wasn't that the purpose of WebM?

devadvance on Sept 13, 2021 [–]

Happy to share!

WebP [1] is based upon VP8 encoding. VP8 is one of the codecs for which WebM is frequently a container. Ultimately, it's similar but achieves different objectives.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP#Technology

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