Editing GIF (section)

====Uses====
In April 2014, [[4chan]] added support for silent [[WebM]] videos that are under 3 MB in size and 2 min in length,<ref>{{cite news|last1=Dewey|first1=Caitlin|title=Meet the technology that could make GIFs obsolete|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/04/08/meet-the-technology-that-could-make-gifs-obsolete/|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=4 February 2015|archive-date=11 May 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150511102846/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/04/08/meet-the-technology-that-could-make-gifs-obsolete/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=WebM support on 4chan|url=http://blog.4chan.org/post/81896300203/webm-support-on-4chan|publisher=[[4chan|4chan Blog]]|access-date=4 February 2015|archive-date=6 April 2014|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140406171238/http://blog.4chan.org/post/81896300203/webm-support-on-4chan|url-status=live}}</ref> and in October 2014, [[Imgur]] started converting any GIF files uploaded to the site to [[H.264]] video and giving the link to the HTML player the appearance of an actual file with a <code>.gifv</code> extension.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2016-07-21|date=2014-08-09|title=Introducing GIFV|publisher=Imgur|url=http://blog.imgur.com/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/|archive-date=5 May 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200505012906/https://blog.imgur.com/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Allan|first1=Patrick|title=Imgur Revamps GIFs for Faster Speeds and Higher Quality with GIFV|date=9 October 2014 |url=http://lifehacker.com/imgur-revamps-gifs-for-faster-speeds-and-higher-quality-1644494212|publisher=[[Lifehacker]]|access-date=4 February 2015|archive-date=3 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150203080613/http://lifehacker.com/imgur-revamps-gifs-for-faster-speeds-and-higher-quality-1644494212|url-status=live}}</ref>

In January 2016, [[Telegram (software)|Telegram]] started re-encoding all GIFs to [[MPEG-4]] videos that "require up to 95% less disk space for the same image quality."<ref>{{cite web|title=GIF Revolution|url=https://telegram.org/blog/gif-revolution|website=Official Telegram Blog|date=4 January 2016|access-date=4 January 2016|archive-date=10 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110202119/https://telegram.org/blog/gif-revolution|url-status=live}}</ref>