Introducing GIFV • Hacker News Board

Re: Introducing GIFV

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Post by dallen33 » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 2:53 PM UTC

dublinben wrote: post #6

mherdeg wrote: post #4

Is this what gfycat does?

That site actually uses the superior VP8 compression format in a WebM container.

Superior in what sense? Not quality or file size.

Re: Introducing GIFV

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Post by arrakeen » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 2:53 PM UTC

an animated gif is not necessarily a video clip, but it seems that i'm in the minority these days.

here's a gif by nicolas sassoon, which format would you prefer?

http://i.imgur.com/fv0qgkc.gif (1.3 MB)

or

http://i.imgur.com/fv0qgkc.gifv (3.9 MB)

Re: Introducing GIFV

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Post by wbond » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 2:58 PM UTC

Am I misunderstanding something here? I don't see anything other than an .mp4 video served via a tag from a URL that ends in .gifv. I was interested in seeing how it worked to look into supporting it for a mime type detection library I've written.

The blog post mentions submitting a specification to the relevant standards organization. Are they planning on creating a new mp4 ftyp and registering a mimetype with IANA?

Re: Introducing GIFV

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Post by MBCook » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 2:58 PM UTC

Oh thank god. Finally.

I've been hoping they'd do this for a while. I hate browsing Reddit and finding a link to a little 'video' that then takes minutes to download fully and still looks terrible because it's a 15MB gif.

Re: Introducing GIFV

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Post by aikah » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 2:58 PM UTC

I dont get the trick.Is it gif or a h264 video inside a "gif" container? looking at the source code,I see a video tag.

Re: Introducing GIFV

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Post by DontBeADick » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 2:59 PM UTC

dublinben wrote: post #5

minimaxir wrote: post #2

The "convert-GIF-to-MP4" technique is the same technique that Twitter [1] and Imgur-competitior Giphy [2] uses. [1] http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-tell... [2] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2g0791/hey_reddit_were...

I would say that Gfycat and Mediacru.sh are actually the leading competitors in this area.

Is Mediacru.sh banned from Reddit? I just saw a thread the other day where someone said the domain was blocked by admins to prevent it from competing with their preferred service (probably Gfycat).

Re: Introducing GIFV

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Post by ssalenik » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 2:59 PM UTC

I don't know if its just me, but the GIFVs embedded on the page dont load for me, unless I click on them to open them in a page on their own, and the second one doesn't play even in this case.

Firefox 32.0.3 on Linux

Re: Introducing GIFV

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Post by davexunit » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 3:00 PM UTC

Ugh, MP4. Terrible choice.

Re: Introducing GIFV

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Post by higherpurpose » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 3:01 PM UTC

Why didn't they just use webm?

Re: Introducing GIFV

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Post by Vanayad » Thu, Oct 09, 2014, 3:02 PM UTC

ssalenik wrote: post #17

I don't know if its just me, but the GIFVs embedded on the page dont load for me, unless I click on them to open them in a page on their own, and the second one doesn't play even in this case. Firefox 32.0.3 on Linux

works for me, chrome / windows