1d ago

Libre GUI Linux program to convert animated GIF to animated Webp?

My image viewer (Xviewer) is sufficient for converting still images to still Webp by just "Save as...", but Xviewer and Pinta only produce still single-frame webps from animated GIFs.

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Gimp can export the gif as webp.
- I'd really rather avoid something as complex as GIMP. The last time I tried it, the menus had so many options they didn't even fit on my screen!
  But beggars can't be choosers, might have to bite the bullet.
  
  Initially, I avoided gimp as well.
  But I was looking at gimp the wrong way. I wanted to know it all and I wanted it to be intuitive.
  Gimp is a Swiss army knife. You won't always need all the tools, and many of them you won't even know are there.
  But with time and new quests you'll start to add the functionalities of gimp to your own toolbox.
  
  Thanks for the tip. Decided to bite the bullet.
  Try "Save as...", realize that won't work and need to use "Export as..."
  Change file extension to. webp, click "Export" and get a window with various options and checkboxes. "As animation" is unticked, so I tick it.
  "This is... taking a long time." Like, 5-10 times as long as a website like EZgif.com. (Probably due to my puny hardware.)
  But it works! Results in an animated webp. About twice the file size of the one from EZgif but hopefully I can tweak things in that option window to get the file size down.
  Thanks :)
  
  I am able to reduce the file size with those options, got it down to half the size of the one from EZgif, and I could probably squeeze it even further if I wanted.

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