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Imgur, popular on Reddit, actually recognized the problem and invented GIFV (which is HTML-wrapped mp4/webm) http://imgur.com/blog/2014/10/09/introducing-gifv/

• le_lenny_face 12y ago
  I hate the "invention" of Gifv with every ounce of my soul. If it's a Webm or a MP4 file then say so. There are HTML5 tags for them and their looping. The least the Internet needs is a redundant file extension for what has been done by Gfycat and 4chan/8chan for years now.
  • jamiesonbecker 12y ago
    Unfortunately a VERY large chunk of the web still can't see webm. http://caniuse.com/#feat=webm http://caniuse.com/#feat=webm
    • the8472 12y ago
      Doesn't IE use directshow filters for playback? As long as anything like ffdshow or lavfilters is installed it could just use those. Afaik firefox uses system-provided h.264 decoders to support that since they don't want to ship one with firefox.
      • kuschku 12y ago
        Firefox ships their own decoder now, Cisco donated a license of the MPEG patents to Mozilla.
        • the8472 12y ago
          I have been told that's only used for webrtc. playing <video> tags uses ffmpeg on linux or media foundation on windows.
          • le_lenny_face 12y ago
            >playing <video> tags uses ffmpeg on linux If only. It uses that broken pile of abstraction called GStreamer.
• the8472 12y ago
  > invented I think 4chan introduced silent, looping, control-less webms for the same purpose (gif replacements) before imgur.