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Old 20th December 2001, 10:34   #8  |  Link
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> Well, it uses a palette of 256 colors only, but it can compress lossless except the colors. And I can imagine it's really good for compressing anime with large unicolor regions. It wouldn't mess up the sharp edges found everywhere in animes.

First you'd have to find an anime with large unicolor regions (aka pre-filtered, DCTs introduce artifacts that gif would choke on). The animated gif format already caters for a rudimentary form of motion compensation, but i think the compression ratio would be much less than you'd expect. Just do a google search for 'avi2gif' and you'll find some tools capable of the conversion.

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