It’s time to replace GIFs with AV1 video

If a user has a really old browser and cannot decode any of the videos, then they would just get the GIF file. I took the open source video Tears of Steel available here https://mango.blender.org/ and encoded it to approximately similar bitrates for AV1, VP9, H.264 codecs. For comparison, here’s the GIF and AV1 video size for each of the scenes

Reach out if you have any questions!

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