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Re: Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion

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Post by thousande »

thousande wrote: post #49
sergiotapia wrote: post #32

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.

Firefox, first try: 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.

Renamed to gfycat - Firefox Add-on

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gfycat-firefo...

Added similar functionality as imdsm's Chrome version, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6976059

Re: Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion

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Post by lelandbatey »

leeoniya wrote: post #43
justinph wrote: post #40

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/

> I've been dealing with weather radar images lately, and they're all terrible animated gifs 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…

As someone who's messed around with gifs a fair amount, I recommend using Imagrmagik over gifscicle since Imagemagik offers far more features and can do a much wider variety of compression on gifs.

Re: Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion

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Post by ehmish »

breadtk wrote: post #46
zbowling wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really they should convince imgur to use this tech and replace all gifs directly.

Imgur is pretty profitable [1], they may even want to consider buying this company. [1] http://www.businessinsider.com/imgur-is-officially-bigger-th...

Page views != profitable

Re: Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion

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Post by bluemetal »

imdsm wrote: post #44
sergiotapia wrote: post #32

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!

This extension works really well.

Feature request: I would like to be able to use some kind of wildcard/regex system to select which websites or domains it works on.

Re: Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion

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Post by _awzg »

I cobbled together a similar service [1] a while back, but lost interest since I figured it wouldn't be profitable. FWIW the tech behind doing something like this is pretty simple, in my case a small shell script that uses imagemagick to dump the frames of the GIF as well as its framerate and then pipes into ffmpeg compiled with x264 and libvpx support.

[1] http://www.qwikgif.com/

Re: Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion

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Post by justinph »

leeoniya wrote: post #43
justinph wrote: post #40

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/

> I've been dealing with weather radar images lately, and they're all terrible animated gifs 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…

You're correct: Radar is pretty well suited for a gif. But, it can still lead to 400kb images that are 150kb when h.264 video. For a mobile connection, that's worth caring about.

Re: Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion

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Post by derefr »

corysama wrote: post #19
fiatpandas wrote: post #12

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

As long a imgur promises to never play audio, I think everyone would be very happy with that feature.

Or just to play audio only on a second level of activation, like Vine does now.

Re: Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion

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Post by [deleted] »

sergiotapia wrote: post #32

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.

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Re: Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion

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Post by JonBons »

sergiotapia wrote: post #32

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 anyone uses RES for reddit I just finished up support for converting gifs to gfycat links with the inline image viewer.

https://github.com/honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite/pul...

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