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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by imaginenore on Monday March 16, 2015 @05:12PM (#9214423)
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/

Unfortunately Facebook doesn't allow easy video embeds.

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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by le_lenny_face on Monday March 16, 2015 @05:32PM (#9214542)
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.
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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by jamiesonbecker on Monday March 16, 2015 @05:51PM (#9214669)
Unfortunately a VERY large chunk of the web still can't see webm. http://caniuse.com/#feat=webm
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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by the8472 on Monday March 16, 2015 @05:54PM (#9214686)
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.

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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by kuschku on Monday March 16, 2015 @08:51PM (#9215598)
Firefox ships their own decoder now, Cisco donated a license of the MPEG patents to Mozilla.
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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by the8472 on Monday March 16, 2015 @09:03PM (#9215638)
I have been told that's only used for webrtc. playing <video> tags uses ffmpeg on linux or media foundation on windows.
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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by le_lenny_face on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @10:29AM (#9218140)
>playing <video> tags uses ffmpeg on linux

If only. It uses that broken pile of abstraction called GStreamer.

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Re:High quality GIF with FFmpeg by the8472 on Monday March 16, 2015 @05:50PM (#9214656)
> invented

I think 4chan introduced silent, looping, control-less webms for the same purpose (gif replacements) before imgur.

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