231–240 of 327 posts
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The point is that they are more images than videos. They have no possible way to contain sounds so the annoyingness is limited to having unwanted images in your browser. You can tell your browser to block a particular still image. You can do the same thing to block a GIF. You don't need a pause/play feature on a 2-5 second sequence.
No, the point is control. You have no idea what I need.
This is fine for real world videos crammed into gifs. But please think of animated pixel art, which is antithetical to many the assumptions that DCT-block based codecs make. Doubly so when you consider that most encoders default to 4:2:0 and ignore transparency. APNG or similar image formats are better for this purpose
I agree, but I want to add that this has another side effect you don't mention: it makes high quality images impossible. In 2019, it would nice to have something better than cjpeg -q 98 for near lossless (or completely lossless images). I've spent many hours tinkering with the new inter frame based image codecs, and I haven't been able to achieve this because despite their advertised support for better standards, the decoders seem to have only implemented 8 bit 4:2:0 subsampled sRGB images.
I guess I'll go on storing my photography in 150 MB TIFF files...
AV1 is not enabled by default in Firefox 66 on Linux. You have to flip a switch in about:config to get it to work. media.av1.enabled For what it's worth, AV1 videos play really slowly on my machine. There's probably a reason AV1 is not enabled by default yet.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Video isn't superior for sharable, loopable images. Try downloading a video from a popular social network. Can you easily do it without inspecting the source? If it's a two second clip, does it loop on your system? Or does the video player exit / end the stream? This is absolutely a problem that GIF doesn't have. > You don't need a proprietary player to loop a video > You can save any video file just like a gif. Exce…
> Can you easily do it without inspecting the source? Yes, I use Page Info (Tools menu -> Page Info) in Firefox. It lists all the media assets on the page and you can download the one you want. The inability to right-click and save a video is less a problem with the video file itself and more a problem with how the page is structured. You can have the same right-click problem with GIFs depending on where they appear…
At this point, killing GIF is a UX problem, not a format problem. I've talked about this before [0], but the big problem for me is that video is just difficult as hell. Compared to a GIF, it is just that much harder to save a video on a phone, and then upload it the same way as an image. Try to save a "GIF" from Twitter or from GIPHY - it's a /huge/ pain. Whatever the GIF killer is will need to pass the right click t…
The UX for saving and sharing videos is the same as for images, including right click to save. You and I don't get that UX, though, because Twitter, Google, Facebook, Netflix, and most websites write code to fight off-site sharing and deploy it on their videos but not their images. They skip images presumably because it's easier to bypass there and because everybody knows you're user-hostile when you break image UX,…
Minus drag and drop, in browsers at least.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Last I checked my iPhone can't do webm or webp
You can support a variety of formats in Safari using WebAssembly builds of the decoders. WebAssembly for audio and image formats is more than fast enough. It's even fast enough for VP9 video. WebP demo: https://webmproject.github.io/libwebp-demo/webp_wasm/index.h... Theora\VP8\VP9\Opus\Vorbis demo: https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/ ogv.js on GitHub: https://github.com/brion/ogv.js
Don't get me wrong, it's a super cool demo but anyone who does this is prod is a little nuts. The exception being a service that's write once read maybe like CCTV cameras.
At this point, killing GIF is a UX problem, not a format problem. I've talked about this before [0], but the big problem for me is that video is just difficult as hell. Compared to a GIF, it is just that much harder to save a video on a phone, and then upload it the same way as an image. Try to save a "GIF" from Twitter or from GIPHY - it's a /huge/ pain. Whatever the GIF killer is will need to pass the right click t…
Gif was killed a long time ago by webm
Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can support a variety of formats in Safari using WebAssembly builds of the decoders. WebAssembly for audio and image formats is more than fast enough. It's even fast enough for VP9 video. WebP demo: https://webmproject.github.io/libwebp-demo/webp_wasm/index.h... Theora\VP8\VP9\Opus\Vorbis demo: https://brionv.com/misc/ogv.js/demo/ ogv.js on GitHub: https://github.com/brion/ogv.js
Is it really worth it to ship a decoder to every user of your site rather than encode it once on your server? Don't get me wrong, it's a super cool demo but anyone who does this is prod is a little nuts. The exception being a service that's write once read maybe like CCTV cameras.
Wikipedia uses ogv.js. If you've ever played audio or video on Wikipedia in Safari then you've used ogv.js.
Some Bach on Wikipedia in Safari: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Chromatic_Fantasia_(Bach_...