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Imgur should do something like this when people are viewing gifs at the Imgur site itself (as opposed to viewing a hotlinked gif file), automatically replacing the embedded GIF file with a video. I imagine they could save a lot in bandwidth costs
It can confuse users that save files to not actually have a gif, though.
Imgur should do something like this when people are viewing gifs at the Imgur site itself (as opposed to viewing a hotlinked gif file), automatically replacing the embedded GIF file with a video. I imagine they could save a lot in bandwidth costs
It can confuse users that save files to not actually have a gif, though.
GIF is a terrible format for video, but OTOH it's fairly lightweight for the browser for simple animation. Historically, playing video in the browser has required loading plugins, increasing the attack surface of the browser quite a bit, as well as inflating memory usage, increasing fragility, etc. HTML5 video is also blocked by my flash blocker. Up until the latest version of Firefox, animated gifs were blocked by m…
Is OTOH really an acronym people are using now?
I was certainly using it in the early 90s.
GIF is a terrible format for video, but OTOH it's fairly lightweight for the browser for simple animation. Historically, playing video in the browser has required loading plugins, increasing the attack surface of the browser quite a bit, as well as inflating memory usage, increasing fragility, etc. HTML5 video is also blocked by my flash blocker. Up until the latest version of Firefox, animated gifs were blocked by m…
Is OTOH really an acronym people are using now?
Been using this on reddit for the past couple of weeks, and it works wonders. It's especially handy on mobile, where bandwidth can be scarce. But what has really struck me about the mobile experience is that using HTML5 video significantly improves the performance. This is important for GIFs/videos with a high resolution, which as GIFs would not render in real time on my phone (which has an S800, so I can only imagin…
I imagine it's because your phone has hardware H.264 decoders, while GIF is being done in CPU.
that's one hell of a sample video other than that: awesome
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I imagine it's because your phone has hardware H.264 decoders, while GIF is being done in CPU.
No, every mobile can process a 80ties picture format in tiny resolutions. 90ies computers could do that without a problem without any allocation an needed only a fraction of their cpu. Now we have quadcore cpus clocked at >1 GHz in our mobiles. It's just the saved bandwidth. And, btw, hardware allocation is a way overrated. There is a HEVC software implementation for the iphone. Just compare the complexity of HEVC to…
Video is video and is in general more properly streamed, evicted from memory, and halted when offscreen.
I guess the pg question here would be: What happens, if imgur decides they want in on the action?