Gfycat - Jiffier gifs through HTML5 video conversion
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#2yes that thanks.
gif takes 10x more bandwidth than modern compressed video average (because generally its lower quality)
so fuck gif, really. ive been annoyed by this for a while. even saw sites that find it smart to replace flash videos with gif.
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#3+1 Go F* Yourself Cat
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#5Handy tool for Reddit users
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#6GIF is a terrible format for video, but OTOH it's fairly lightweight for the browser for simple animation. Historically, playing video in the browser has required loading plugins, increasing the attack surface of the browser quite a bit, as well as inflating memory usage, increasing fragility, etc.
HTML5 video is also blocked by my flash blocker. Up until the latest version of Firefox, animated gifs were blocked by my use of image.animation_mode:once in about:config. Providing the element is clickable, the flash blocker makes it easier to play back the desired video on demand.
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#7Been using this on reddit for the past couple of weeks, and it works wonders. It's especially handy on mobile, where bandwidth can be scarce.
But what has really struck me about the mobile experience is that using HTML5 video significantly improves the performance. This is important for GIFs/videos with a high resolution, which as GIFs would not render in real time on my phone (which has an S800, so I can only imagine what the experience must be like on other phones).
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#8That idea originated from https://mediacru.sh/ - I read that article and considered doing my own "gfycat" site, it looks like someone had the motivation to go through with it after all :)
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#9> The problem is that html5 video doesn't work everywhere (we actually encode six different videos to cover the most browsers)
Six different videos?? Anyone knows more about html5 video fragmentation and why six videos are required?
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#10that's one hell of a sample video
other than that: awesome