Can't we just all settle for .webm? The cancerous patented MP4/H264 combination must die.
Is .webm hardware-accelerated?
It is on my phone.
Introducing GIFV
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#42I 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
It is asking for adobe flash on linux
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#43"With all these improvements, Imgur will now denote converted MP4s with a .gifv extension. The intention is to signal to users throughout the Internet that these links will feature a GIF experience that incorporates all the current and future enhancements made through Project GIFV. Imgur plans to submit an accompanying specification to relevant standards organizations before the end of the year." This is bizarre. GIF…
Browsers should display GIFVs without transport controls (unlike ), and ignore any audio tracks that are included - basically construct a limited MP4 profile and handle it appropriately. It's a useful construct imho.
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#44What is the innovation here?
Four mistakes in spelling 'webm'?
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#45I propose a new format - GIFVGIF
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#46I think bhuston said it best.
>This is a marketing endeavor that is pretending to be a technical innovation.
Most of us are asking, why isn't it format X, or format Y. When they are clearly superior in quality and compression. The answer is they don't have marketing power.
GIFV is directed at increasing attention to imgur. By trying to make more sites adopt it as their image/video hosting platform. Since imgur already has the size/market dominance to spread the GIFV platform. Increasing its chance of adoption.
Rise above, support webm. Better compression, better quality, more wide spread.
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#47Am 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?
Yes, why are they calling mp4 files gifv files? Is it somehow cooler?
Can I start serving .html files as .awesome files? And .js as .kicka$$ files? and .mp3 as .boomin'?
GET "index.awesome"
at this rate, why not re-write all of html so it's cooler? => =>
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Re: Introducing GIFV
#48"With all these improvements, Imgur will now denote converted MP4s with a .gifv extension. The intention is to signal to users throughout the Internet that these links will feature a GIF experience that incorporates all the current and future enhancements made through Project GIFV. Imgur plans to submit an accompanying specification to relevant standards organizations before the end of the year." This is bizarre. GIF…
Browsers should display GIFVs without transport controls (unlike ), and ignore any audio tracks that are included - basically construct a limited MP4 profile and handle it appropriately. It's a useful construct imho.
So this is actually making mp4 worse? Talk about innovation.
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#49"With all these improvements, Imgur will now denote converted MP4s with a .gifv extension. The intention is to signal to users throughout the Internet that these links will feature a GIF experience that incorporates all the current and future enhancements made through Project GIFV. Imgur plans to submit an accompanying specification to relevant standards organizations before the end of the year." This is bizarre. GIF…
No, probably not anyone who is reading hackernews, but imgur has a much wider audience. GIFV will help communicate 2 things: 1) this file is audio free 2)this file is safe (people don't generally worry about getting a virus from a gif).
Do they from an mp4?
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#50"With all these improvements, Imgur will now denote converted MP4s with a .gifv extension. The intention is to signal to users throughout the Internet that these links will feature a GIF experience that incorporates all the current and future enhancements made through Project GIFV. Imgur plans to submit an accompanying specification to relevant standards organizations before the end of the year." This is bizarre. GIF…
No, probably not anyone who is reading hackernews, but imgur has a much wider audience. GIFV will help communicate 2 things: 1) this file is audio free 2)this file is safe (people don't generally worry about getting a virus from a gif).
What stops you delivering any old mp4 as a gifv?