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Feature request: support for animated webp

Posted under Bugs & Features

As far as I understand, the format itself does not contain sufficient data for full decompression. Due to this, official Google utilities have limited functionality.
The closest third party solution is from ffmpeg, which has many uses. https://patchwork.ffmpeg.org/project/ffmpeg/patch/20230706112731.35895-4-thilo.borgmann@mail.de/#78839 https://trac.ffmpeg.org/ticket/4907 I haven’t tested it, but according to the description it’s still in development.
I think the lack of utilities also limits the site's ability to provide support for working with the format in various aspects. But I'm not a developer to comment on this.

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