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

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Post by cbhl »

jdiez17 wrote: post #18
RoryGlyphic wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

If you want to convert GIFs to WebM/MP4/etc you might want to check out the MediaCrush[1] code. Or just use https://mediacru.sh , which is and always will be free. [1]: https://github.com/mediacrush/mediacrush

I'd love to know your thoughts on using WebP (image format that supports animation) versus WebM (video format) for GIFs.

Do you think it's worthwhile? If not, why?

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

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Post by fragmede »

Yes, someone else gets it - keep it simple!

I made quietyoutube.com (put 'quiet' in front of any youtube video) and get a page of just the video, nothing else. I made it a couple years arg. Shame I can't get the SSL cert, though the bookmarklet I made works well enough.

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

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Post by tburns »

ZenoArrow wrote: post #10
Paul_S wrote: post #6

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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.

Mail.app on OS X also does this

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

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Post by stevoo »

RoryGlyphic wrote: post #21
RoryGlyphic wrote: post #20

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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

Well you are posting at an extremely tech oriented group. I believe i speak for like 90% here that we all want to hear about the tech* wooops.

Shed some light in how you made everything. This is what interests us mostly.

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

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Post by Titanbase »

coolnow wrote: post #102
RoryGlyphic wrote: post #27

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HMmMM Strange! I tried the video and it worked for me :O I'll try to look into that problem :3. Nice to meet you btw ^_^

What's up with the emoticons?

In conversation in Facebook, Skype, et al, they usually have a number of smiley faces.

Some people use them all the time. And they don't have to be graphics, they can be done in text too. :]

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

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Post by Titanbase »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #106
coolnow wrote: post #102

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What's up with the emoticons?

If I were to speculate, I'd say RoryGlyphic is younger than you.

I don't agree, some of the people that use emoticons all the time are actually older than 40.

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

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Post by zenojevski »

RoryGlyphic wrote: post #50
midhir wrote: post #46

So cool, congratulations! I made this in a few seconds - http://share.gifyoutube.com/lin.gif

wait until you can add captions ahaha I'm already thinking of a few good ones for this gif

What about music?

http://phatgifs.com/?v=http%3A%2F%2Fshare.gifyoutube.com%2Fl...

This seems a perfect match for my audio/video mashupper! It could accept YouTube as video source, but despite my efforts, often gifs still sync better than youtube's quirky player as they are converted to webm automatically.

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