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josephg on June 25, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: A new PNG spec

I doubt it, given png is a lossless compression format. For video thats almost never what you want.

DidYaWipe on June 25, 2025 [–]

For animations with lots of regions of solid color it could do very well.

josephg on June 26, 2025 | [–]

So do most other video formats. I'm not really seeing any advantages, and I see a lot of disadvantages vs h264 and friends.

account42 on June 26, 2025 | | [–]

Not without lots of artifacts.

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