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

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Post by malnourish »

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 love your work. Thank you for mediacrush. Are you guys doing alright, financially, if you don't mind me asking?

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

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Post by gmanley »

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…

The exif comment of the resulting gif file is 'Lavc54.59.100'. So it's most likely ffmpeg/libav or a tool that utilizes their libraries, such as mplayer. It's fairly simple to produce a GIF from a video file using the ffmpeg cli.

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

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Post by jdiez17 »

malnourish wrote: post #154
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 love your work. Thank you for mediacrush. Are you guys doing alright, financially, if you don't mind me asking?

Thank you for using MediaCrush! We publish regular transparency reports[1] about several things, including our finances. We don't have any seed money, it's just coming out of our own wallet.

[1] https://blog.mediacru.sh/2014/07/12/State-of-MediaCrush-2014...

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

#158

Post by yutah »

innguest wrote: post #40

Really good idea and well executed. Would you mind saying a few words behind the code? Do you scrape the whole video, or just the part requested? And is the conversion to gif a library or something you wrote? I'm totally ignorant when it comes to scraping videos and converting them, but I find it interesting.

you can also take a look at https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl also to find out how to download Youtube videos

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

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Post by georgemcbay »

RoryGlyphic wrote: post #117
bkd wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not necessarily - just something I wanted to mention.

will look into seeing if any quality is lost ^_^. cheers

Displaying a video or photo in an incorrect aspect ratio is unequivocally a loss of quality.

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

#160

Post by georgemcbay »

This is nice work, but I'll go ahead and be the token negative nancy HN poster and say:

Fuck GIF; just because the patent expired doesn't mean we should use this piece of shit (by modern standards) format for things it was never really intended for and for which there are far better solutions, like just linking to the actual video.

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