GIFSane: GIF playback control using WASM and FFmpeg

Re:GIFSane: GIF playback control using WASM and FFmpeg by izietto on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @05:31AM (#30083826)

> GIFs are ominous nowadays, being more popular than even newer and more efficient formats, such as WEBP or APNG. But, depending on their length and what has been recorded, you might want to pause, go back, jump sections etc. Video playback features basically… which GIFs don’t have.

The lack of video features are exactly the reason for which gifs are preferred in some contexts:

- you are 100% sure that you're not going to have audio surprises

- you don't have useless UI components. I'm just watching an idiot meme, why there is a time slider, a play/pause button, a muted audio button, a full screen button...? Ok, controls can be disabled and customized, but it requires effort that a simple <img src="funny-dog.gif"/> gives you for free

The only GIF's issue is that the format is not disk-efficient, but who cares? I can live with it when I'm watching a few-seconds-lasting-low-resolution-dumb-meme

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Re:GIFSane: GIF playback control using WASM and FFmpeg by brunoluiz on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @06:50AM (#30084406)

I don't have anything against meme GIFs: they are short and meant to be repeatable, so all good.

But, as I wrote in the post, I came across too many GIFs with demos, tutorials or animated diagrams on GitHub and NPM. This was the motivation to create GIFSane, as sometimes you want to stop in a frame, or go back to check a detail.

> The software engineering world adopted them for a particular use case: recording tutorials and demos.

Besides, the whole thing was done in the name of the hacking spirit hehe Perhaps, one day, GitHub will convert any GIFs/WebM files into video components (similar to what Twitter does).

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