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>21MB of gifs on the readme Why?

Sephr 8y ago
A good solution would be termtosvg[1] styled to look like Sublime Text 3. [1] https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg
- solidr53 8y ago
  Nice one!
- nkristoffersen 8y ago
  Not supported in all browsers I thought? I recall a browser couldn’t do SVG animations
  - coldtea 8y ago
    Would the users of that browser be of interest when considering that this is for developer documentation?
  - FreeFull 8y ago
    Microsoft Edge doesn't support them.
- yoavm 8y ago
  Or just an mp4 video. I converted (with ffmpeg) one GIF and it turned from 6MB to 1.5MB without any parameters settings, and still looking perfect.
notheguyouthink 8y ago
I would imagine because the author wants to show moving pictures of the project.
- tenryuu 8y ago
  yes, but a 15 fps gif, where a majority of frames are just duplicates of the previous image? AND 265 colours? (Photoshop crashed my GPU trying to even display the this) I could cut this shit down to less than 1MB if I tried, retaining the horrible gif format. There's no excuse for the file sizes to be this dramatic, apart from outright laziness
  - randy3k 8y ago
    I was using a software to capture the screen as GIF. The original file size for a single file was around 2x mb. I am by no mean an image expert, so I only used ImageOptim and some online services. And they are what I got. I will be glad to know if you know how I could downsize improperly a GIF.
    - tenryuu 8y ago
      Depending on how the desktop is encoded (sometimes it's a video encoded to a gif), you may get artifacts etc. that make every frame different. But if that's not the case, and the snapshot of each frame is pretty much 1:1 on what's on the desktop, you can use Imagemagick to remove duplicate frames https://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_opt/#removedups https://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_opt/#removedups And right above this paragraph is a dope technique to use overlays and a non-dispose of frames to make the gif only change which pixels are being updated (like a video format I guess). This might sound pretty complex, and sure, That's fair, we are coming up on 30 years since an update to the format. People just generally use videos these days for desktop recording since they're more suited for the job, at a even lower filesize
      - notheguyouthink 8y ago
        > This might sound pretty complex, and sure, That's fair, we are coming up on 30 years since an update to the format. People just generally use videos these days for desktop recording since they're more suited for the job, at a even lower filesize Out of curiosity, any idea what formats you'd choose to embed in a Github readme? Videos or otherwise, I'm not sure which play well when embedded, and are GitHub allowed, etc.

A good solution would be termtosvg[1] styled to look like Sublime Text 3. [1] https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg https://github.com/nbedos/termtosvg

solidr53 8y ago
Nice one!
nkristoffersen 8y ago
Not supported in all browsers I thought? I recall a browser couldn’t do SVG animations
- coldtea 8y ago
  Would the users of that browser be of interest when considering that this is for developer documentation?
- FreeFull 8y ago
  Microsoft Edge doesn't support them.
yoavm 8y ago
Or just an mp4 video. I converted (with ffmpeg) one GIF and it turned from 6MB to 1.5MB without any parameters settings, and still looking perfect.

notheguyouthink 8y ago

I would imagine because the author wants to show moving pictures of the project.

tenryuu 8y ago
yes, but a 15 fps gif, where a majority of frames are just duplicates of the previous image? AND 265 colours? (Photoshop crashed my GPU trying to even display the this) I could cut this shit down to less than 1MB if I tried, retaining the horrible gif format. There's no excuse for the file sizes to be this dramatic, apart from outright laziness
- randy3k 8y ago
  I was using a software to capture the screen as GIF. The original file size for a single file was around 2x mb. I am by no mean an image expert, so I only used ImageOptim and some online services. And they are what I got. I will be glad to know if you know how I could downsize improperly a GIF.
  - tenryuu 8y ago
    Depending on how the desktop is encoded (sometimes it's a video encoded to a gif), you may get artifacts etc. that make every frame different. But if that's not the case, and the snapshot of each frame is pretty much 1:1 on what's on the desktop, you can use Imagemagick to remove duplicate frames https://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_opt/#removedups https://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/anim_opt/#removedups And right above this paragraph is a dope technique to use overlays and a non-dispose of frames to make the gif only change which pixels are being updated (like a video format I guess). This might sound pretty complex, and sure, That's fair, we are coming up on 30 years since an update to the format. People just generally use videos these days for desktop recording since they're more suited for the job, at a even lower filesize
    - notheguyouthink 8y ago
      > This might sound pretty complex, and sure, That's fair, we are coming up on 30 years since an update to the format. People just generally use videos these days for desktop recording since they're more suited for the job, at a even lower filesize Out of curiosity, any idea what formats you'd choose to embed in a Github readme? Videos or otherwise, I'm not sure which play well when embedded, and are GitHub allowed, etc.