Twitter's GIF hack

eph_unit wrote: post #3

So, what is an easy way to convert gifs to mp4? How did they do this. I run a small gif-sharing site and should probably do this.

imagemagick + ffmpeg

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3212821/animated-gif-to-...

Re: Twitter's GIF hack

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Post by kwntm » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 6:03 PM UTC

eph_unit wrote: post #3

So, what is an easy way to convert gifs to mp4? How did they do this. I run a small gif-sharing site and should probably do this.

Check out http://www.gfycat.com/about

Re: Twitter's GIF hack

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 6:04 PM UTC

Much like what http://gfycat.com/ do, then?

Interesting also that 4chan recently added looping, muted WebM videos for similar reasons.

Re: Twitter's GIF hack

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Post by brickmort » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 6:04 PM UTC

I think now would be a good time to introduce HTML5 videos to the feed, or gfycats. At least on certain browsers.

Re: Twitter's GIF hack

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Post by raverbashing » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 6:04 PM UTC

I had noticed that. Because of flashblock.

Yeah, a 20+ years file format doesn't do compression between frames, who would have thought...

Re: Twitter's GIF hack

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Post by jdiez17 » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 6:06 PM UTC

eph_unit wrote: post #3

So, what is an easy way to convert gifs to mp4? How did they do this. I run a small gif-sharing site and should probably do this.

I made a website that does this, and a lot more. It's also open source, and has been around for a while.

https://mediacru.sh

Re: Twitter's GIF hack

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Post by stonogo » Thu, Jun 19, 2014, 6:06 PM UTC

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.