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That site actually uses the superior VP8 compression format in a WebM container.
Except for being free, WebM was not a "superior compression format" to H264 last I heard. Has it changed recently?
This is bizarre. GIFV isn't a new file format. It is just an alias for an existing format. The only reason the letters "GIF" are in this new file extension is to signal that the file was converted from a GIF, but who cares, apart from the so-called cultural connotations?
I mean, does anybody care to have a BMPJ (a JPEG file that was converted from a BMP) or a WAV3 (an MP3 that was converted from a WAV)? Or a .GIFMP4GIFMP4GIFMP4 file, which was converted back and forth a few times?
Doesn't mp4 have enough extensions? .aac, .mp4, .m4a, .m4b, .mp4v, .m4p, .m4v, .mpeg4 so far.
And now .gifv? I don't get it.
"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…
I 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
I 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
The "convert-GIF-to-MP4" technique is the same technique that Twitter [1] and Imgur-competitior Giphy [2] uses. [1] http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-tell... [2] http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/2g0791/hey_reddit_were...