• SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
    2·
    23 hours ago

    APNG files start to get large - a dozen or few dozen megabytes

    I just messed around with using ffmpeg to convert that MP4 to both APNG and WEBP, and the size difference was substantial, but definitely not that bad.

    • MP4
      • 60.4 KiB
      • klingon-jump-rope.mp4
    • APNG
      • 1.6 MiB
      • ffmpeg -i klingon-jump-rope.mp4 -plays 0 klingon-jump-rope.apng
    • WEBP
      • 110.9 KiB
      • ffmpeg -i klingon-jump-rope.mp4 -loop 0 klingon-jump-rope.webp
    • WEBM
      • 59.9 KiB
      • ffmpeg -i klingon-jump-rope.mp4 klingon-jump-rope.webm

    EDIT: Oh, right, “few dozen megabytes” probably refers to some other animation you had made. Still, you are right, WEBP seems to be the way to go.

    • data1701d (He/Him)@startrek.websiteOPEnglish
      5·
      23 hours ago

      I think part of my Prodigy meme problem was I tried to encode in a bit too high a resolution (720x480). When retesting it today, I had a 49.1 MiB file, verses with a WEBP encoded at quality level 90, I got it down to 3 megabytes while still looking pretty good. I also kept having an issue with APNG white lines that I could never figure out.

      Also, the WEBP was a bit larger than that - I wasn’t satisfied with FFMPEG’s default quality level of 75, so I experimented and decided on 97, getting a size of 333.8 KiB.

      P.S For funzies, here’s the WEBP version of that Prodigy meme I was talking about (done in 85):