Not optimal but fun. I made the same silly mistake recently thinking GIFs would be cool. But you lose colour depth (GIFs are indexed 256 colour at most) so get dithered, and the GIF files were bigger than the original MP4s. Not clever, but fun.
GIFs have two significant advantages though: 1. A longer history of support across many web browsers (decades); and 2. They are temporally lossless, which is good for detail (although spatially lossy in colour). I'm still a little shocked that GIFs still exist in this century... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to thumbnailer in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1527315 Title: Attached gif downloaded from telegram takes out the phone as thumbnailer hogs the memory and cpu Status in Canonical System Image: Confirmed Status in thumbnailer package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: STEPS: 1. drop the attached gif into the Photo's folder 2. Open gallery 3. Refresh the photo's scope ISSUE: The gif I think causes thumbnailer to loop, Memory usage jump 4% each loop until oom takes out the app but thumbnailer is still stuck in it's loop so eventually the scopes are all taken out, At that point thumbnailer is stopped and the system returns to normal with the exception that there is now a black space where the scopes used to be. IMAGE: Krillin ota 8.5 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1527315/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
