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Quality/Dithering

With this being a black and white animation, it should be no problem to make a quality GIF that doesn't show dithering. Something like this:

ffmpeg -i "c:\file.mkv" -vf "crop=1440:1080:0:0,fps=18,split[s0][s1];[s0]palettegen[p];[s1][p]paletteuse" -map 0:0 c:\gif.gif - Anonymous-232 (talk) 18:30, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

 Done, many thanks Cakelot1 ☞️ talk 21:09, 1 January 2024 (UTC)

Replace with WebM version?

Is there a reason to not use a WebM version? Can Wikipedia embed and autoplay silent WebMs? Can it default to muted for a sound track? Commons:File types Anonymous-232 (talk) 07:33, 2 January 2024 (UTC)

I think it's another code issue. I'd support it if it was possible to have gif-like autoplaying webms if they are short (e.g. <20 s). Maybe create an issue on phabricator and link it here. The problem is that the software development is neglected and volunteers not facilitated to join so it'll take 8 years or so until it's implemented until when always laborously gifs need to be created. Another useful thing to have would be enabling embedding webms where from= and until= is specified so you can embed only parts of longer webms. Prototyperspective (talk) 09:26, 2 January 2024 (UTC)