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I made a site that drove this innovation, MediaCrush. It's open source. https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush if you want to try to do this yourself, our code is a good reference. https://mediacru.sh
Why did Gfycat win? I've always wondered.
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Huh yourself? HTML dates from 1993, GIF dates from 1987.
Okay, so take my question and s/HTML/hierarchical file systems/ or s/HTML/C/ or make any other substitution. Why ditch something just because it's old?
If something sucks but is still the standard technique in recent years then it's reasonable to think it should be supported. Similarly, if something is old but great, it's reasonable to think it should be supported. But GIF is old and crappy and there's no reason to expect support for something old and crappy to continue indefinitely.
I'd also note that your other examples have received substantial revisions over the years that have improved them enormously. I'd happily say the same thing about not supporting 1987-era C or filesystems.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the whole reason gifs started proliferating on the net because people wanted to share short video loops, but didn't want to embed flash or video which may not load or play correctly in a user's browser? And now we are championing the conversion of those gifs back into video? Seems like a strange round-about way of doing things. I forsee a future where all video clips on the net hav…
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the whole reason gifs started proliferating on the net because people wanted to share short video loops, but didn't want to embed flash or video which may not load or play correctly in a user's browser? And now we are championing the conversion of those gifs back into video? Seems like a strange round-about way of doing things. I forsee a future where all video clips on the net hav…
I don't think gifs' recent surge in popularity has anything to do with technical issues like browser compatibility. They became popular because of artistic/aesthetic value and web culture. These features all differentiate gifs from 2010-mainstream forms of embedded video like Youtube: - starts playing automatically - loops seamlessly - never has sound - no logos or buttons like "share" and "embed" - no scrubber bar o…
- They are dead simple to save (or link to) and drop into your own page/blog/comment.
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Or alternatively browsers could use non-terrible chroma upsampling algorithms. http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/79805
Thank you! I was gonna post the exact same thing. Nice website, though. I encoded the gif in 420 (subsampling), 422 and 444, having a nice quality with 444 with VLC, I embed the three different videos in a web page and when playing in my browser, they are all as bad as the twitter video! I thought that Firefox was using a standard library to play MP4?
Depending on the webpage you uploaded them, the videos could be re-encoded (or VLC's options could be no-ops and the artifacts hidden when played back in VLC due to better chroma upsampling) hence the problem.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the whole reason gifs started proliferating on the net because people wanted to share short video loops, but didn't want to embed flash or video which may not load or play correctly in a user's browser? And now we are championing the conversion of those gifs back into video? Seems like a strange round-about way of doing things. I forsee a future where all video clips on the net hav…
I don't think gifs' recent surge in popularity has anything to do with technical issues like browser compatibility. They became popular because of artistic/aesthetic value and web culture. These features all differentiate gifs from 2010-mainstream forms of embedded video like Youtube: - starts playing automatically - loops seamlessly - never has sound - no logos or buttons like "share" and "embed" - no scrubber bar o…
- no choice paralysis
- dead simple
- can have sound
- easy to shoop
- drag/drop
- cut/paste
I'm curious if anyone is noticed the flickering Loading icon when the .mp4 version loops? It only shows up for 50 ms, but seems kind of annoying. Or maybe it's just my machine? Here's a cap: http://imgur.com/2R84ImD
If you right-click on that, is it a Flash player? Are you on Firefox?
I made a site that drove this innovation, MediaCrush. It's open source. https://github.com/MediaCrush/MediaCrush if you want to try to do this yourself, our code is a good reference. https://mediacru.sh
Why did Gfycat win? I've always wondered.
The player is very unobtrusive and minimalist, and simple things like pronounceable random names probably appeal to the user.
Also, features that are well-known to heavy reddit users (such as easily resizeable videos) only helped with the word-of-mouth.
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It does not work for me, too. FF30, OSX 10.9.3. https://www.evernote.com/shard/s19/sh/e81e070a-4e2e-4367-9eb...
OSX 10.9.2 + FF30 here: http://i.imgur.com/uTlQkg7.jpg
OS X is the last platform where Firefox doesn't support H.264. They're working on it, but it doesn't seem to be landing soon.