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Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

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Post by RoryGlyphic »

RoryGlyphic wrote: post #20
JoshTriplett wrote: post #11

Very nice. If this had a simple way to add timed annotations ("#ann=top,10s,18.3s,SomeText" or similar), that'd be absurdly useful. What technology did you build this with? What do you use to decode videos and write out gifs? Here's a useful bookmarklet to apply this to a video: javascript:location.host="gifyoutube.com" EDIT: are you getting hammered by traffic right now? Because I tried this on a 15 second video, an…

YES. IDEA #1 IS GREAT. Will be done! Also thank you for the bookmarklet. I'll PM you about the tech ^_^ As per the edit - yeah a ton of traffic BUT generally right now 98% of GIFs are making. We have a known problem with vevo and other music videos though :(. If you post the YT link I can look into it and see if it's a traffic thing or just one that wouldn't work normally

I'll email you about tech* woops

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

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Post by JoshTriplett »

RoryGlyphic wrote: post #20
JoshTriplett wrote: post #11

Very nice. If this had a simple way to add timed annotations ("#ann=top,10s,18.3s,SomeText" or similar), that'd be absurdly useful. What technology did you build this with? What do you use to decode videos and write out gifs? Here's a useful bookmarklet to apply this to a video: javascript:location.host="gifyoutube.com" EDIT: are you getting hammered by traffic right now? Because I tried this on a 15 second video, an…

YES. IDEA #1 IS GREAT. Will be done! Also thank you for the bookmarklet. I'll PM you about the tech ^_^ As per the edit - yeah a ton of traffic BUT generally right now 98% of GIFs are making. We have a known problem with vevo and other music videos though :(. If you post the YT link I can look into it and see if it's a traffic thing or just one that wouldn't work normally

> YES. IDEA #1 IS GREAT. Will be done!

Thanks! On that note, you'll want to handle fractional seconds for the annotations, or possibly frame numbers.

> I'll PM you about the tech ^_^

I look forward to it.

> As per the edit - yeah a ton of traffic BUT generally right now 98% of GIFs are making. We have a known problem with vevo and other music videos though :(. If you post the YT link I can look into it and see if it's a traffic thing or just one that wouldn't work normally

https://gifyoutube.com/watch?v=BNsrK6P9QvI

I don't know what you normally use to download videos, but you might try youtube-dl; it seems to work on just about everything, and you could script it.

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

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Post by enraged_camel »

RoryGlyphic wrote: post #12
notastartup wrote: post #8

Really cool but wonder how youtube's legal department will react to having youtube in the domain name let alone copyright claims. What are you using for the queue?

Plan was to get a different domain (suggestions?) and fwd it but still have the GYT functionality I'm not 100% sure if youtube minds. Someone from youtube actually put it on one of their videos (a button for it), and then said youtube community department were having fun and spreading it around We don't use a 3rd party queueing software ^_^.

>>suggestions?

Maybe giftube.com or yougif.com?

I'd register those but keep what you currently have for now. Being able to say "put the word gif in front of any youtube url" is just great for user experience.

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

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Post by shaunol »

RoryGlyphic wrote: post #7
gus_massa wrote: post #5

I like that you can choose the starting time directly in the video. But I'd like to choose the finishing time in the video too. (I wouldn't remove the option to choose starting point+lenght).

Thanks for the feedback! I definitely agree and something we were trying to work on. One thing that's difficult is choosing the finishing time on the video. For example if it's 5 seconds or something, the two end points are really close. What do you think about beta.gifyoutube.com? It's a little different mechanics for choosing start time (which I'm not the best fan of), but maybe it's a little easier for end time. I…

I like this interface over the current one. The only issue I had with it is not having millisecond steps to create a decent loop. I also wasn't getting a thumbnail preview in the black box when seeking the video.

Nice useful tool.

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

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Post by RoryGlyphic »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #23
RoryGlyphic wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YES. IDEA #1 IS GREAT. Will be done! Also thank you for the bookmarklet. I'll PM you about the tech ^_^ As per the edit - yeah a ton of traffic BUT generally right now 98% of GIFs are making. We have a known problem with vevo and other music videos though :(. If you post the YT link I can look into it and see if it's a traffic thing or just one that wouldn't work normally

> YES. IDEA #1 IS GREAT. Will be done! Thanks! On that note, you'll want to handle fractional seconds for the annotations, or possibly frame numbers. > I'll PM you about the tech ^_^ I look forward to it. > As per the edit - yeah a ton of traffic BUT generally right now 98% of GIFs are making. We have a known problem with vevo and other music videos though :(. If you post the YT link I can look into it and see if it'…

HMmMM Strange! I tried the video and it worked for me :O

I'll try to look into that problem :3. Nice to meet you btw ^_^

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

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Post by benjamincburns »

RoryGlyphic wrote: post #12
notastartup wrote: post #8

Really cool but wonder how youtube's legal department will react to having youtube in the domain name let alone copyright claims. What are you using for the queue?

Plan was to get a different domain (suggestions?) and fwd it but still have the GYT functionality I'm not 100% sure if youtube minds. Someone from youtube actually put it on one of their videos (a button for it), and then said youtube community department were having fun and spreading it around We don't use a 3rd party queueing software ^_^.

I'd suggest talking to a lawyer.

My (unsolicited) layman's take:

Someone from youtube != Google's legal department, which makes this situation both awesome and sad. If Google wishes to maintain their ownership of the youtube trademark, legally they must enforce their ownership of it (which means either granting you a license, or sending you a C&D). That said, I'd search around for trademark licensing info - they may have an existing license which covers this use.

In the mean time you may be able to protect yourself a little by adding some text that says that YouTube is a legally registered trademark of Google, Inc., and this site is not affiliated with Google in any way.

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

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Post by RoryGlyphic »

lnanek2 wrote: post #26

Worked good...I'm amazed it hasn't been crashed from being top on Hacker News Oo It mentioned queueing work and things like that, must be impressively well written to not just try every request at once and hose itself.

Ahaha thank you thank you. We ended up being the most upvoted thing on imgur one day ( http://imgur.com/gallery/vSDlg ), and we learned a lot of lessons after crashing a lot ahahaha:')

I'm actually surprised now too :O

Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

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Post by lotharbot »

As an amateur sportswriter, I expect to be using this a LOT during the upcoming season -- provided there aren't any legal issues with the youtube name, copyright on clips, etc.

Took like 15 seconds to make http://share.gifyoutube.com/lcD.gif (a game-winning shot from a couple seasons back).

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