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If someone can create a simple Firefox/Chrome addon that takes imgur .gif links, and automatically converts the URL from this: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/666/838/7fb.gif To this: gfycat.com/fetch/http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/666/838/7fb.gif I'm sure it would easily become a top 20 addons hands down.
https://www.reddit.com/r/gfycat/comments/1s0fip/extension_fo...
This is excellent. I've been dealing with weather radar images lately, and they're all terrible animated gifs. This sizes them down nicely. A service like this really needs to support oEmbed. The oEmbed spec is pretty simple and it would make this more widely usable by popular blogging platforms, and make it easier to use on responsive websites. http://oembed.com/
actually, weather radar is an ideal use-case for GIFs. they have limited colors, only a few dozen frames which may need to be delayed for a few hundred ms.
you should really try compressing the gifs using something like gifsicle [1], you'll be astounded by the resulting size (use lzw compression), quality and performance (use a global color palette). it will surpass any video you can make.
what GIFs are terrible at is photographs and video. for the majority of graphics and animations they're awesome sauce.
If someone can create a simple Firefox/Chrome addon that takes imgur .gif links, and automatically converts the URL from this: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/666/838/7fb.gif To this: gfycat.com/fetch/http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/666/838/7fb.gif I'm sure it would easily become a top 20 addons hands down.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autogfy/aleldfepmn...
Enjoy!
If someone can create a simple Firefox/Chrome addon that takes imgur .gif links, and automatically converts the URL from this: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/666/838/7fb.gif To this: gfycat.com/fetch/http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/666/838/7fb.gif I'm sure it would easily become a top 20 addons hands down.
If someone can create a simple Firefox/Chrome addon that takes imgur .gif links, and automatically converts the URL from this: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/666/838/7fb.gif To this: gfycat.com/fetch/http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/666/838/7fb.gif I'm sure it would easily become a top 20 addons hands down.
Really they should convince imgur to use this tech and replace all gifs directly.
[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/imgur-is-officially-bigger-th...
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They offer the ability to playback in reverse, so I imagine it's three different formats, doubled so that there's a reverse copy of each video. If I had to guess, they're probably encoding MP4/H.264, WebM/VP8, and Ogg/Theora.
So close: > Note that there are 6 separate encodings -- mp4, webm, and reduced mp4, for forward and reverse
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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…
If someone can create a simple Firefox/Chrome addon that takes imgur .gif links, and automatically converts the URL from this: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/666/838/7fb.gif To this: gfycat.com/fetch/http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/666/838/7fb.gif I'm sure it would easily become a top 20 addons hands down.
http://mr-andersen.no/div/send-to-gfycat.xpi
Edit: If you want to inspect the source, download the file and rename the extension to zip.
Edit2: You may have to download the file and drag it into Firefox in order to install.
If someone can create a simple Firefox/Chrome addon that takes imgur .gif links, and automatically converts the URL from this: http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/666/838/7fb.gif To this: gfycat.com/fetch/http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/666/838/7fb.gif I'm sure it would easily become a top 20 addons hands down.
Extension is now published, though there is no fancy art yet: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/autogfy/aleldfepmn... Enjoy!