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Re: Twitter's GIF hack

#21
post #10

This is on a fully-patched RHEL6 workstation: http://i.imgur.com/NleqJTD.png Another example of "use bleeding-edge tech or go fuck yourself" from the modern web.

Support for mp4 isn't bleeding-edge tech on other operating systems / distributions, unfortunately. It's a couple of years old in terms of being supported by Chrome; it's supported in Firefox as of last August. At this point, desktop configurations that can't play mp4s are at risk of being considered "broken."

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Re: Twitter's GIF hack

#22
post #10

This is on a fully-patched RHEL6 workstation: http://i.imgur.com/NleqJTD.png Another example of "use bleeding-edge tech or go fuck yourself" from the modern web.

This is very far from bleeding-edge; we're talking technology between five and 10 years old. Set up gstreamer already; it's time to move past gifs.

Re: Twitter's GIF hack

#23
post #10

This is on a fully-patched RHEL6 workstation: http://i.imgur.com/NleqJTD.png Another example of "use bleeding-edge tech or go fuck yourself" from the modern web.

You choose not to use the appropriate software to experience what is being offered. This is akin to riding a decrepit horse on a racetrack while whining about how everyone else that is riding a healthy horse is going faster and having a better experience than you. Just upgrade.

Your analogy is stupid and your comments are not helpful. I'm not modifying 3,600 workstations because some web programmer decided to mangle user-uploaded content without doing fundamental work to ensure graceful degradation.

Re: Twitter's GIF hack

#24
So. Who was first. 4chan or twitter?

How long has twitter been doing this? Just out of curiousity.

(Yes I know 4chan doesn't convert but there was some talk that 4chan might be a major player in pushing webm forward. Is it even webm or x264? On mobile. Can't check right now.)

Re: Twitter's GIF hack

#25
post #10

This is on a fully-patched RHEL6 workstation: http://i.imgur.com/NleqJTD.png Another example of "use bleeding-edge tech or go fuck yourself" from the modern web.

Support for mp4 isn't bleeding-edge tech on other operating systems / distributions, unfortunately. It's a couple of years old in terms of being supported by Chrome; it's supported in Firefox as of last August. At this point, desktop configurations that can't play mp4s are at risk of being considered "broken."

Chrome on Mavericks is "broken?" How shall I upgrade this?

Re: Twitter's GIF hack

#26
post #22
post #10

This is on a fully-patched RHEL6 workstation: http://i.imgur.com/NleqJTD.png Another example of "use bleeding-edge tech or go fuck yourself" from the modern web.

This is very far from bleeding-edge; we're talking technology between five and 10 years old. Set up gstreamer already; it's time to move past gifs.

WebM works fine on this machine. mp4 does not. This is why there was a bit of scuffle, as you may recall, about video formats on the web.

Re: Twitter's GIF hack

#27
post #10

This is on a fully-patched RHEL6 workstation: http://i.imgur.com/NleqJTD.png Another example of "use bleeding-edge tech or go fuck yourself" from the modern web.

What percentage of Twitter's users do you think use Linux for browsing? Much less RHEL. Anyway, this is purely a front-end enhancement mostly for the benefit of mobile users.

Also lol @ mp4 being "bleeding edge" tech. It certainly is not. Even in the Linux community.

Re: Twitter's GIF hack

#28
post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Support for mp4 isn't bleeding-edge tech on other operating systems / distributions, unfortunately. It's a couple of years old in terms of being supported by Chrome; it's supported in Firefox as of last August. At this point, desktop configurations that can't play mp4s are at risk of being considered "broken."

Chrome on Mavericks is "broken?" How shall I upgrade this?

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Re: Twitter's GIF hack

#29
post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You choose not to use the appropriate software to experience what is being offered. This is akin to riding a decrepit horse on a racetrack while whining about how everyone else that is riding a healthy horse is going faster and having a better experience than you. Just upgrade.

Your analogy is stupid and your comments are not helpful. I'm not modifying 3,600 workstations because some web programmer decided to mangle user-uploaded content without doing fundamental work to ensure graceful degradation.

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Re: Twitter's GIF hack

#30
Unfortunately the MP4 looks worse than the GIF, due to chroma compression in the YUV 420 colorspace. While each pixels luminance value is kept, the color information for a 4-pixel square is stored as a single CrCb pair, which is really obvious when you look at how the orange hat has artifacts against the blue background. Increasing the bitrate won't solve this either, since it's a limitation of the colorspace.
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