Show HN: Put “gifs.com/save” in front of any Vine link
gifs.comPut /raw at the end of any Vine URL to download the mp4.
Your gif converter is neat. But why do you re-encode the mp4? I understand that's necessary for the general case of taking in an arbitrary video, but since you're ingesting a pre-processed mp4 and producing an mp4, why the lossy conversion?
Original: https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/F91F3B3C4A1403892123400577024...
sha1: fe3f47da5fcd6b812aceabca1261d83140d83325
Converted: https://j.gifs.com/66YY8R.mp4
sha1: 40c143447b02b7c919e20794593be4c95918bd56
This doesn't look like a GIF. I didn’t count the colors, but that looks like full/true color to me.
I have no problem with that, but it says it’s a GIF…?
Sadly the name has come to mean "moving sequence of frames" nowadays. WebM and MP4 provide this functionality using significantly less bandwidth.
This may be of interest: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=pixel+art&tbs=itp:animate... http://revangale.tumblr.com/
Why do I have to register with you to download a gif?
Putting "gifs.com/save/" in front of any Vine link (or Instagram!) converts it into a gif - you'll need an account.
Can also gif live streams (FB, Twitch, Youtube Live, Periscope), and any other video website by going to the home page.
But half the point is audio?
Co-founder popping in! We make a .mp4 with sound!
You'll get the .gif automatically: https://j.gifs.com/Q1AA6L.gif and you can change the extension for the .mp4: https://j.gifs.com/Q1AA6L.mp4
You can click on add effects to do a bunch of neat stuff as well.
Upvotes on this HN submission may be manipulated: http://i.imgur.com/yIwWqLC.png
you guys are killin it!
This account only ever seems to have replied to three things, one >1000 days ago. Really weird.
(I don't think HN completely deletes comments like this, so I don't think there's some huge pile of extra stuff I can't see, unlike with reddit)
Fake accounts and manipulated upvotes.