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139MB is utter insanity for an animated GIF. Crushing it with gifsicle can get it down to 125MB but clearly GIF is the wrong choice of format here. Here's a H

139MB is utter insanity for an animated GIF. Crushing it with gifsicle can get it down to 125MB but clearly GIF is the wrong choice of format here. Here's a HEVC compressed video version which is only 25M and suffers only extremely mild softness: http://david.gloveraoki.net/f/32M.mp4 http://david.gloveraoki.net/f/32M.mp4 It would probably be even better if I could work with the source video and not the gif version.

wingworks 5y ago
idk, I had no issues loading the gif and playing it. For some reason your video doesn't want to play in Chrome. I had to download it first.
- klyrs 5y ago
  Back when I had a 500MB data plan, a partner sent me an 80MB gif which kicked me offline for several days. It's good to warn people about large files.
  - wingworks 5y ago
    That's a good point! Didn't think about that.
jcun4128 5y ago
Is interesting Gif size. With ShareX I get massive Gifs, but Kap on Mac I can get much smaller files (this is 14fps). Same for screentogif massive files... not sure what makes them so big.
mlindner 5y ago
Your video doesn't work either but the GIF worked fine. I get MIME type not found for yours. Also the video is full of very fine scale noise. Something that won't compress by HEVC very well at all. You want a lossless compression method (or a very high perceptive index on HEVC).
graderjs 5y ago
I love how the helpful engineers of hacker News come to the aid of the poor soul who's inadvertently uploaded their video of the biggest eruption in the last 30 years in the wrong format or without the proper compression. I love that...it's like, 'happy to help to make everything more efficient!' In other news IT still takes days to get back to me about getting my BYO device onboarded... I'm not saying it's a paradox just noticing the juxtaposition
- sva_ 5y ago
  > In other news IT still takes days to get back to me about getting my BYO device onboarded... Perhaps those IT folks are busy procrastinating by optimizing gifs using ffmpeg on HN

wingworks 5y ago

idk, I had no issues loading the gif and playing it. For some reason your video doesn't want to play in Chrome. I had to download it first.

klyrs 5y ago
Back when I had a 500MB data plan, a partner sent me an 80MB gif which kicked me offline for several days. It's good to warn people about large files.
- wingworks 5y ago
  That's a good point! Didn't think about that.

jcun4128 5y ago

Is interesting Gif size. With ShareX I get massive Gifs, but Kap on Mac I can get much smaller files (this is 14fps). Same for screentogif massive files... not sure what makes them so big.

mlindner 5y ago

Your video doesn't work either but the GIF worked fine. I get MIME type not found for yours. Also the video is full of very fine scale noise. Something that won't compress by HEVC very well at all. You want a lossless compression method (or a very high perceptive index on HEVC).

graderjs 5y ago

I love how the helpful engineers of hacker News come to the aid of the poor soul who's inadvertently uploaded their video of the biggest eruption in the last 30 years in the wrong format or without the proper compression. I love that...it's like, 'happy to help to make everything more efficient!' In other news IT still takes days to get back to me about getting my BYO device onboarded... I'm not saying it's a paradox just noticing the juxtaposition

sva_ 5y ago
> In other news IT still takes days to get back to me about getting my BYO device onboarded... Perhaps those IT folks are busy procrastinating by optimizing gifs using ffmpeg on HN