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This is NSFW, but if you want to see how to do HTML video right, check out redgifs.com The videos play almost instantaneously, in any browser with DRM installe
by forgotmypw17 5y ago
This is NSFW, but if you want to see how to do HTML video right, check out redgifs.com
The videos play almost instantaneously, in any browser with DRM installed and without, even on, e.g., a 2013 netbook.
I think that, just as with many other things in HTML/JS land, there is a way to do it simply and elegantly, though it requires paging through dozens of StackO posts, random docs, etc.
For example, I used to think that paste-to-upload was difficult to achieve, until I'd paged through all that and discovered it's no more than a couple of lines, including creating the form elements and all.
Dig deep and you will find the way. There's no need to use more complicated options which also don't work in 99% of existing browser base.
- capableweb 5y agoredgifs was spun out of Gfycat (with a new owner too), so I assume that the same player is being used at https://gfycat.com/ https://gfycat.com/ (or rather the other way around), but can't verify right now as I'm in a working environment.
- forgotmypw17 5y agoYou're right, I knew it looked familiar. However, Gfycat features many anti-patterns, such as heavy layout, inaccessible scrolling and cookie notification overlay, while RT omits these.
- giantrobot 5y agoPorn sites have an impetus to serve content quickly because the content itself is often an advertisement for some other paid service. So even with some small number of conversions they make some money. Gfycat et all aren't lead-ins to paid services so they're going to festoon pages with low paying ads. The porn content is also usually more fungible than a meme gif. A particular gif of a cat or something is what people are after vs the porn where it's anything that turns them on.