Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter

#1

Post by RoryGlyphic » Sat, Aug 16, 2014, 10:27 PM UTC

Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
gifyoutube.com

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#2

Post by valarauca1 » Sat, Aug 16, 2014, 10:30 PM UTC

This is really cool. And I hate to be that guy, especially so early. But wouldn't it be easier on both networking and cpu to convert it to a webm?

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#3

Post by kmizzle » Sat, Aug 16, 2014, 10:32 PM UTC

valarauca1 wrote: post #2

This is really cool. And I hate to be that guy, especially so early. But wouldn't it be easier on both networking and cpu to convert it to a webm?

Cant email a webm

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#4

Post by RoryGlyphic » Sat, Aug 16, 2014, 10:34 PM UTC

valarauca1 wrote: post #2

This is really cool. And I hate to be that guy, especially so early. But wouldn't it be easier on both networking and cpu to convert it to a webm?

Absolutely! We actually made a webm version (that's the smallest size to date and the fastest to create), but just wanted to perfect GIF creation and get some captions on the system early before introducing webm.

Maybe we should reverse that?

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#5

Post by gus_massa » Sat, Aug 16, 2014, 10:49 PM UTC

I like that you can choose the starting time directly in the video. But I'd like to choose the finishing time in the video too. (I wouldn't remove the option to choose starting point+lenght).

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#6

Post by Paul_S » Sat, Aug 16, 2014, 10:54 PM UTC

kmizzle wrote: post #3

valarauca1 wrote: post #2

This is really cool. And I hate to be that guy, especially so early. But wouldn't it be easier on both networking and cpu to convert it to a webm?

Cant email a webm

How is attaching a gif any different than attaching a webm?

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Post by RoryGlyphic » Sat, Aug 16, 2014, 10:55 PM UTC

gus_massa wrote: post #5

I like that you can choose the starting time directly in the video. But I'd like to choose the finishing time in the video too. (I wouldn't remove the option to choose starting point+lenght).

Thanks for the feedback! I definitely agree and something we were trying to work on.

One thing that's difficult is choosing the finishing time on the video. For example if it's 5 seconds or something, the two end points are really close.

What do you think about beta.gifyoutube.com? It's a little different mechanics for choosing start time (which I'm not the best fan of), but maybe it's a little easier for end time.

I'm actually not really sure on this. We were going to try some A|B testing but the beta GYT isn't 100% ready

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Post by notastartup » Sat, Aug 16, 2014, 10:57 PM UTC

Really cool but wonder how youtube's legal department will react to having youtube in the domain name let alone copyright claims.

What are you using for the queue?

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#9

Post by michaelq » Sat, Aug 16, 2014, 11:00 PM UTC

This is awesome. Less than a minute to create this: https://www.gifyoutube.com/gif/kWm

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#10

Post by ZenoArrow » Sat, Aug 16, 2014, 11:02 PM UTC

Paul_S wrote: post #6

kmizzle wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cant email a webm

How is attaching a gif any different than attaching a webm?

Some email clients support animated gifs embedded in the main email content. None that I currently use, but I do remember it as a feature in Outlook 2003.