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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 le

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.