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Re: Show HN: Convert online videos to .gif

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coryl wrote: post #28
sgehlich wrote: post #9

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Thanks for your suggestion, I really appreciate it! The idea of greying the indicator out is nice, I'll implement it tomorrow. Yes, we were already thinking about providing such a premium service, we'll see what we can do. Right now it's just an experiment, let's hope it'll get bigger :) Edit: We slice the video into frames by using ffmpeg. Unfortunately, the gif encoder of ffmpeg uses a pretty bad color palette, I a…

Cofounder of GifSoup.com here (before we sold it off). Prepare to have your bandwidth obliterated. You'll need to pay for way better hosting, people are literally going to hotlink you to death. I'm not sure if your downloading process has a progress bar, but I suggest you implement one to keep impatient people from leaving (it looks like you do, but your server just might be unresponsive at the moment). Your hosting…

Hey coryl, thanks for your feedback! The studio is just temporarily storing the files, they are automatically deleted after (currently) 24h. We will move this down to 60 minutes though.

As mentioned before, the server this beauty is running on is a very very small one, since we didn't expect such a huge feedback. We will move to another server later this week.

I've been running an online video converter for 5 years now, 300 TB of traffic per month (and the resulting video files are a lot bigger than the .gifs we are creating with this service), so I guess I'm quite experienced in handling huge amounts of traffic. As I see the stats on gifsoup.com, it had about 7TB traffic in total, which I think is nothing to worry about. Thanks for the hint, though :)

Re: Show HN: Convert online videos to .gif

#34

Post by sgehlich »

enneff wrote: post #30

Bug report: I made a gif and halfway through it cut to some other video. Weird. I couldn't pull any kind of unique identifier out of the page to show you, sorry.

Something like this here? http://forgif.me/hc I'll have a closer look at it when I'm at the office, thanks for the hint!

Re: Show HN: Convert online videos to .gif

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Post by coryl »

sgehlich wrote: post #33
coryl wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cofounder of GifSoup.com here (before we sold it off). Prepare to have your bandwidth obliterated. You'll need to pay for way better hosting, people are literally going to hotlink you to death. I'm not sure if your downloading process has a progress bar, but I suggest you implement one to keep impatient people from leaving (it looks like you do, but your server just might be unresponsive at the moment). Your hosting…

Hey coryl, thanks for your feedback! The studio is just temporarily storing the files, they are automatically deleted after (currently) 24h. We will move this down to 60 minutes though. As mentioned before, the server this beauty is running on is a very very small one, since we didn't expect such a huge feedback. We will move to another server later this week. I've been running an online video converter for 5 years n…

Glad to know you're well experienced, we sure weren't :)

Re: Show HN: Convert online videos to .gif

#38

Post by sgehlich »

sgehlich wrote: post #34
enneff wrote: post #30

Bug report: I made a gif and halfway through it cut to some other video. Weird. I couldn't pull any kind of unique identifier out of the page to show you, sorry.

Something like this here? http://forgif.me/hc I'll have a closer look at it when I'm at the office, thanks for the hint!

Should be fixed!
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