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Re: WebM support on 4chan

#101

Why not use a tag with the 'loop' attribute to better simulate animated GIFs?

And turn off video controls. They get in the way and lack of them never hurt gif.

Please don't. gifs are constrained by file size and usually 10-20 seconds or less. When you approach the minute range being able to navigate through rather than watching the whole thing again becomes valuable. Thankfully there's no sound, so at least there's no issue with volume levels.

Re: WebM support on 4chan

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post #92
post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>as well as the novelty eventually wearing off. You haven't been on 4chan much, have you? I can promise you it would never get old. Anyway, what 4chan wants is basically better GIFs.

>what 4chan wants is basically better GIFs. _And_ sound, as evidenced by anybody who posts links to youtube or soundcloud, e.g., /a/ or /mu/. Having such functionality directly in 4chan uploads would further the goal of anonymous ephemerality/content creation better than links to other sites. I can see your point if by "4chan" you mean "moot and site admins" due to the copyright concerns, but my feeling from other an…

> as evidenced by anybody who posts links to youtube or soundcloud

Or people who post images that have audiodata hidden in them in increasingly sophisticated and hard to detect ways. /v/, /a/ and /mu/ have semi-regular sounds threads. I'm certain people will find a way to embed sound in video files in ways that can't be detected and update the media extension to handle those. We will have sounds one way or another.

Re: WebM support on 4chan

#103
post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> a pithy, if slightly inaccurate, description of VP8 would be “H.264 Baseline Profile with a better entropy coder..." and > Overall, VP8 appears to be significantly weaker than H.264 compression-wise. don't seem to go very well together, to me. How can VP8 be a better H.264 and worse than H.264 at the same time?

H.264 defines a number of profiles and levels that define the acceptable tools from the overall suite that a conforming decoder implementation can rely on. "Baseline" uses very few of these tools, relative to the more sophisticated profiles.

Oh, I didn't know about that, thanks!

Re: WebM support on 4chan

#104
post #92
post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>as well as the novelty eventually wearing off. You haven't been on 4chan much, have you? I can promise you it would never get old. Anyway, what 4chan wants is basically better GIFs.

>what 4chan wants is basically better GIFs. _And_ sound, as evidenced by anybody who posts links to youtube or soundcloud, e.g., /a/ or /mu/. Having such functionality directly in 4chan uploads would further the goal of anonymous ephemerality/content creation better than links to other sites. I can see your point if by "4chan" you mean "moot and site admins" due to the copyright concerns, but my feeling from other an…

>If the novelty truly never wore off, every gif would still turn into cheetus after the first frame, and every link to youtube would still be Rick Astley.

These examples aren't actually gone, you know? Less common, certainly, but these trolling-memes don't really die out until there's something new to replace their exact use-case.

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