Motion Stills – Now on Android

Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by wybiral on Thursday July 20, 2017 @09:35PM (#14817488)

I texted a GIF from my Pixel and it was really blocky, even at the highest setting. It doesn't look bad during playback or when uploaded to Photos though.

Is this an MMS issue or something?

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Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by mastax on Thursday July 20, 2017 @11:03PM (#14817753)

I also have issues sending video over MMS.

I think the issue is just the design of MMS. It was designed back when dumbphones ruled, so it was designed to have cell networks transcode media into a compatible format for the target device. The cell networks don't want to spend the cpu cycles or perhaps engineer time to do it properly. Perhaps RCS[0] solves this issue, but I think everyone will have switched to WhatsApp, et. al by then.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich_Communication_Services

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Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by dingo_bat on Thursday July 20, 2017 @11:02PM (#14817748)

I just used it on my S7 and shared it on whatsapp: looks very high quality to me. You can try changing the gif quality from settings, although the default worked fine for me.

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Re:Motion Stills – Now on Android by wybiral on Thursday July 20, 2017 @11:27PM (#14817836)

I tried at the medium (default) and highest. Oddly enough the highest quality setting was the most blocky so I'm guessing the MMS or Pixel->Iphone text did something weird?

Either way, the app is neat and I think this is just an artifact in the MMS stage rather than the files.

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