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A Community for people to create posts with GIFs, MP4s or WEBPs - anything that's animated and reasonably short.

Images can be often be hosted directly on Lemmy, or on external sites such as https://imgur.com or https://catbox.moe.

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Lana tries cocaine. [meta: actual gif => lemmy] (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by freamon to c/gifs

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I'm doing some testing to see what the best format / upload site is.

Original: .gif file, 823KB
Auto-converted by Lemmy to: .mp4, 138KB

Desktop

web:
Thumbnail? no, Loads in post? yes, Loop? no
alexandrite:
Thumbnail? no, Loads in post? no, Loop? no
photon:
Thumbnail? no, Loads in post? yes, Loop? no

Mobile

sync:
Thumbnail? no, Loads in post? no, Loop? yes
voyager:
Thumbnail? no, Loads in post? yes, Loop? yes
connect:
Thumbnail? no, Loads in post? yes (for 1 loop), Loop? yes (when loaded separately)
liftoff:
Thumbnail? no, Loads in post? yes, Loop? yes
jerboa:
Thumbnail? no, Loads in post? no, Loop? no (have to load in a browser)

I don't have access to every front-end and mobile app available. Please share your experiences with whatever it is you use. Thanks.

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[–] freamon 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you for the info. I've been wading through pict-rs trying to figure out what it does, but the only thing I really learnt was that it's very configurable. I'm trying .webp next, but yeah, the last time I saw a .webm uploaded, it wasn't playing at all.