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

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

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Post by carlesfe »

JoshTriplett wrote: post #11

Very nice. If this had a simple way to add timed annotations ("#ann=top,10s,18.3s,SomeText" or similar), that'd be absurdly useful. What technology did you build this with? What do you use to decode videos and write out gifs? Here's a useful bookmarklet to apply this to a video: javascript:location.host="gifyoutube.com" EDIT: are you getting hammered by traffic right now? Because I tried this on a 15 second video, an…

Since gifyoutube doesn't support https, this is an updated bookmarklet for thost who use youtube with https and need to change the protocol along with the host:

javascript:location="http://gifyoutube.com"+location.pathname+location.search;

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

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Post by JoshTriplett »

carlesfe wrote: post #131
JoshTriplett wrote: post #11

Very nice. If this had a simple way to add timed annotations ("#ann=top,10s,18.3s,SomeText" or similar), that'd be absurdly useful. What technology did you build this with? What do you use to decode videos and write out gifs? Here's a useful bookmarklet to apply this to a video: javascript:location.host="gifyoutube.com" EDIT: are you getting hammered by traffic right now? Because I tried this on a 15 second video, an…

Since gifyoutube doesn't support https, this is an updated bookmarklet for thost who use youtube with https and need to change the protocol along with the host: javascript:location=" http://gifyoutube.com"+location.pathname+location.search ;

https://gifyoutube.com/ seems to work just fine.

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

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Post by zenojevski »

lelandbatey wrote: post #95

Wow, talk about a really small world! OP (RoryGlyphic) are you the guy who sent me a text message asking if I'd want to get involved with making a YouTube-to-Gif site (specifically, this conversation [0]). If so, I wanted to say good job on finishing your project, it works great and is easy to use (an much less hackish than my original GifMachine[1]). Also, I'm super excited that something I made a long time ago prom…

Mind if I add some sound to that?

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

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

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Post by zenojevski »

lotharbot wrote: post #30

As an amateur sportswriter, I expect to be using this a LOT during the upcoming season -- provided there aren't any legal issues with the youtube name, copyright on clips, etc. Took like 15 seconds to make http://share.gifyoutube.com/lcD.gif (a game-winning shot from a couple seasons back).

Blow a pleasant dream for my window!

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

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

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Post by personlurking »

Really cool!

One issue I see is when someone uses the same word as title, no one else can use it (as opposed to a number-based titling system where no one would care if /90289432 was in use). Also someone else can peruse other people's gifs by just checking random titles (perhaps a non-issue, though).

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

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Post by iopq »

iopq wrote: post #108
downandout wrote: post #82

Great job with this. Very useful. The only issue I see is that Google may sue over domain/trademark issues. Facebook has done this to many sites for using "fb" in their domains. While you're getting lots of attention, you may want to offer a browser plugin/extension/bookmarklet that interfaces with the site (have the bookmarklet use a domain less likely to be contested) so that you can keep momentum going if they hap…

How about let me google it for you?

Correction: let me google that for you

http://lmgtfy.com/

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

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Post by hpeinar »

NamTaf wrote: post #112

The presentation of the page ("copy pasta z", the fullscreen gif background, the popup in the middle, the banner in the top left) all strike me as being dodgy/malicious and from a site that I'd immediately want to close and never visit again. I'm not sure why you see the need to be so 'internet' with it all when you could do a fully functional equivalent that would be easier on your servers too. Just make it clean an…

I'd second that. Make it clean, easy for the eye and it's far more usable.

But great tool nonetheless. Props to you!

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

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Post by jdiez17 »

cbhl wrote: post #121
jdiez17 wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

We haven't looked much into WebP as an animation container. And since it's only supported by Chrome (and will likely remain that way) we are not currently considering it. WebM and MP4 both have pretty good codecs for video; definitely a lot better than GIFs, that's for sure.
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