This is great! Reddit/4chan and what not is gonna abuse the service. :)
it was supposed to be a gift for reddit :')
Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
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#72Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plan was to get a different domain (suggestions?) and fwd it but still have the GYT functionality I'm not 100% sure if youtube minds. Someone from youtube actually put it on one of their videos (a button for it), and then said youtube community department were having fun and spreading it around We don't use a 3rd party queueing software ^_^.
I'd suggest talking to a lawyer. My (unsolicited) layman's take: Someone from youtube != Google's legal department, which makes this situation both awesome and sad. If Google wishes to maintain their ownership of the youtube trademark, legally they must enforce their ownership of it (which means either granting you a license, or sending you a C&D). That said, I'd search around for trademark licensing info - they may…
Maybe Google could by it for a few bob? You never know.
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#74always feel a bit weird when I view the source and find things like this: /watch?v=QgaTQ5-XfMM how does one go about deciding to use such markup?
ahahah we kind of just hacked this together for fun. Legacy code, snippets, and just being silly :#
Yes, I could tell by the massive amounts of inline css that either this was a hack, or you ran it through mailgun's css inliner.
But seriously, if I wanted to add an html tag from 1996 to my site, where is the best place to look for one on the world wide web?
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#75Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
YES. IDEA #1 IS GREAT. Will be done! Also thank you for the bookmarklet. I'll PM you about the tech ^_^ As per the edit - yeah a ton of traffic BUT generally right now 98% of GIFs are making. We have a known problem with vevo and other music videos though :(. If you post the YT link I can look into it and see if it's a traffic thing or just one that wouldn't work normally
I'll email you about tech* woops
can I read about the tech as well?
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#78Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
#79This 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?
I definitely prefer gifs, so please dont remove that option.
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#80This looks great!! Thanks. Coub.com has great ui for user selecting precise in/out points. http://www.infinitelooper.com/?v=WThZsGOVkbk&p=n#/458;464 lets you select LOOP in/out right in URL. But neither make GIF, so easy to cut and paste.
Feature request: please enable preview of youtube loop right in your url like gifyoutube.com/y0ut0oo0biD&loop=123.4;5.67 where first number is 'start time' then second number is 'length'. And allow millisecond specification.
File size could be smaller? EG 0.14 second frames instead of 0.08, longer duration frames aren't too noticable and may cut bulky GIF sizes almost in half.