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Many platforms already stopped using gifs, for precisely those reasons. Tumblr silently converts to animated webp when uploading a gif, imgur converts it to mp4
by Deukhoofd 2y ago
Many platforms already stopped using gifs, for precisely those reasons. Tumblr silently converts to animated webp when uploading a gif, imgur converts it to mp4, etc.
- mid-kid 2y agoThis is really annoying when trying to share gifs across platforms. I can't export a "gif" (.mp4) from telegram and upload it to Discord and display it like a gif instead of a click-to-play video, even though discord uses .mp4 under the hood as well...
- lxgr 2y agoMaybe all it takes for this is a new canonical file extension, i.e. something like .m4g? The contract for these could be something like "no sound, default playback in a loop, 30 seconds or less; don't render if any of these requirements aren't met" to make sure people don't abuse it for auto-playing videos.
- masklinn 2y agoIt's really more of a browser issue, a GIF you can just right click and download, but they don't make that option available for videos.
- lxgr 2y agoThat option does actually exist for "plain" HTML5 <video> tags, as far as I know. It's just that most videos aren't hosted as simple as that, and are effectively stitched together out of multiple MPEG-DASH, HLS etc. fragments – or the site uses a custom video player. In both cases, the result is a lack of a right-click-to-save option.
- sureIy 2y ago<img src="v.mp4"> is a thing, but unfortunately it’s not supported outside Safari. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60114243/using-videos-in-img-html https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60114243/using-videos-in...
- de_layer 2y agoGIF = Graphics Interchange Format _speechless at the irony