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A screencast is closer to a slideshow than a video. When only 1-5 frames per second are needed, Animated GIF doesn't use much bandwidth. It works in every brows

A screencast is closer to a slideshow than a video. When only 1-5 frames per second are needed, Animated GIF doesn't use much bandwidth. It works in every browser and on very light CPUs. "the gif people tried suing everyone once" You mean Unisys, 'the LZW people'. CompuServe were 'the gif people', who didn't try to sue anyone. Anyways, the LZW patents expired in 2004, so that's no reason to avoid Animated GIFs now. "Don't let Steve Jobs' rivalry with Adobe make you fall in love with sub-par formats. He's glad you uncritically parrot his thinking, but its really not doing anything for you." Thanks for the ad hominem, but I didn't need Steve Jobs to tell me Flash has problems. As a smartphone user, I had already figured that out on my own. However, Adobe can easily win the argument. All they have to do is make Flash safe and stable, and create a fast and power efficient player for mobile devices. I'm just not going to hold my breath. Having said that, the OP could've used far fewer frames, and instead of Animated GIF he could've used a series of JPEGs animated with JavaScript.

drzaiusapelord 16y ago
>Animated GIF doesn't use much bandwidth. I Bullshit, this is a HUGE file. Its 4 megabytes for whats essentially a few seconds of small extremely low quality video. Again, mp4 or flash (even with the old flv based codecs) would be one tenth the size. Again, gif is no web standard. Again, its owners were anything but open. Again, your hatred of flash and other alternatives is making you look foolish.
- steevdave 16y ago
  You are bitching about gif not being open while advocating flash... And telling him that he looks foolish?
  - drzaiusapelord 16y ago
    Actually I'm advocating mp4, but I'll take flash over gif. Heck, since Flash9, it can play mp4 files. I'll even take wmv over gif. Gif is not an appropriate container for video. People use it for easy hosting not because its a "standard" or because its good at video. 4 megabytes of this? Please.
    - Samuel_Michon 16y ago
      I call strawman. You are trying to make this about video, while I'm talking about slideshows. For video, Animated GIF is no good, we're in complete agreement there.

drzaiusapelord 16y ago

>Animated GIF doesn't use much bandwidth. I Bullshit, this is a HUGE file. Its 4 megabytes for whats essentially a few seconds of small extremely low quality video. Again, mp4 or flash (even with the old flv based codecs) would be one tenth the size. Again, gif is no web standard. Again, its owners were anything but open. Again, your hatred of flash and other alternatives is making you look foolish.

steevdave 16y ago
You are bitching about gif not being open while advocating flash... And telling him that he looks foolish?
- drzaiusapelord 16y ago
  Actually I'm advocating mp4, but I'll take flash over gif. Heck, since Flash9, it can play mp4 files. I'll even take wmv over gif. Gif is not an appropriate container for video. People use it for easy hosting not because its a "standard" or because its good at video. 4 megabytes of this? Please.
  - Samuel_Michon 16y ago
    I call strawman. You are trying to make this about video, while I'm talking about slideshows. For video, Animated GIF is no good, we're in complete agreement there.