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sehugg on Jan 25, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making GIFs From Video Files With Python

One nice thing about GIF is that the format is not patent-encumbered. Same goes for MPEG-1.

daliusd on Jan 26, 2014 [–]

WebM seems to avoid all the problems related to patents (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM).

sehugg on Jan 26, 2014 | [–]

Nokia is still trolling VP8/VP9.

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