> <i>Will BPG will replace GIFs?</i><p>Didn't, hasn't, won't.<p>HEVC is a patent licensing mess and, therefore, so too is BPG.<p>You're much better off using the AVC, VP9, or AV1 video formats or the WebP (<a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/webp" rel="nofollow">https://developers.google.com/speed/webp</a>), APNG (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG</a>), AVIF (<a href="https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/" rel="nofollow">https://aomediacodec.github.io/av1-avif/</a>), or JPEG XL (<a href="https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/" rel="nofollow">https://jpeg.org/jpegxl/</a>) image formats.