... I can't see their new format. I can't see mp4's. I'm using firefox. This is the future? great.
It pushes a flash viewer to FF, even though I have a plugin that handles MP4.
Introducing GIFV
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Re: Introducing GIFV
#202an 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)
gif2apng result:
http://i.imgur.com/FiSXtwg.png (654 KB)
Re: Introducing GIFV
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100 auto-playing videos will still bring your computer to a screaming halt.
Only if they're all visible at once. Unlike GIF, which has to do CPU-bound stuff to compute its next frames even if it isn't visible in order to stay synchronized, videos that are scrolled off the screen take effectively zero resources. (Well, they'd take resources to play audio if there were an audio track, but not when they're muted like GIFVs are.) You could have e.g. a Tumblr dashboard loaded with hundreds of scr…
Good point, hadn't thought of that. If I'm recalling the differences correctly, GIF will let you layer new frames with transparency directly over old frames basically forever, while video formats have full keyframes at regular intervals that allow you to jump to anywhere in the video by only calculating the chunk since the previous keyframe?
I haven't made any gifs since flashing "Under Construction" signs were a thing on web pages, so it's been a while. Maybe I should put some up on tilde.club.
Re: Introducing GIFV
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#205Earlier quoted context omitted.
i-m-g-u-r pronounced "imager"
Interesting. I've always pronounced it im-gir (im as in nim, gir as in girl)
heh. i always pronounced img-url... because that is what i thought the domain was :)
well, not like i would ever typed to reach it on purpose anyway. it is just reddit's image anyway.