freamon

I know what you mean about trailers - I always avoid them for films because of how much they give away. The Ahsoka one isn't too bad, and it's useful as something to refer to as what should be considered a base level of knowledge about a show. Otherwise we end up in the crazy situation of saying that Ahsoka appearing in the new Ahsoka show is a spoiler.

For things that are unarguably spoilers though, the post suggests waiting 'a couple of weeks'. A meme I posted was reported, even though I'd followed the 'usual guidelines' of waiting a week.

We're reluctant to curb people's creativity though, and obviously the thing that's just happened is going to drive much of the original content we especially appreciate. So hopefully, if people follow the suggestion about how best to prevent anyone accidentally seeing something too soon, we can reach some sort of compromise.

I tend to use photon.lemmy.world, but it'd be really cool if I could log in to lemmy.world using tesseract. It's a fork of Photon - so I imagine it also has feature-parity with the official UI - but it's "designed for media-rich feeds and content". It's what they use at dubvee, and db0 also provides it as an alternative

I don't use the default one because it gets confused when lemmy decides to bring a gif in from an external site, and then convert it to a mp4 (it's a pretty hit-and-miss affair in the Gifs Community), though I realise it's ultimately lemmy itself that's causing the problem.

PS wasn't by me, sadly. Another mod (RHO) discovered it (reverse image search suggests it's been kicking around the Internet for a while)

I'll try to add comments here about how GIFs and WEBP files I make are done
Required software is ffmpeg and gifski
An image viewer (like irfanview) that can loop through a directory's image is really useful too

How the fight club gif was made

Cut a 10 second clip from the full movie
ffmpeg -i fight.club.mkv -ss 32:40 -to 32:50 -c copy clip.mkv

Convert into frames, drop resolution to 576x324 and framerate to 10 to reduce final file size
ffmpeg -i clip.mkv -vf scale=576:324,fps=10 frame%3d.png

Remove unwanted frames (frame001.png => frame048.png from the start; frame082.png => frame100.png from the end)
e.g. for i in {01..48}; do rm frame0${i}.png; done
This just leaves frames 049 to 081 left

Add frames in reverse to smooth out the loop a bit
j=82; for i in {80..50}; do cp frame0${i}.png frame0${j}.png; j=$(( j+1 )); done

Create gif (70% quality, 10 fps)
gifski -Q 70 -r 10 -o upload.gif *.png

We try to have different themes for posts on a Wednesday. Memes should feature droids, memes should be across 4 panels, that sort of thing. Last Wednesday's theme was 'health and safety'.

Yeah it's just the default web view that struggles.

I don't think there's much of a fix, because it depends on the arbitrary decision that lemmy makes as to whether to just link to the file on an external site, or to try to download it and cache it. If it chooses the second option, then you're fucked.

The possible solutions all suck for one reason or another: make a text post and use an inline link in the body; use a big file and/or a low-bandwidth site so lemmy gives up trying to bring it in; or link to non-embedded version (e.g. https://tenor.com/en-GB/view/walter-didnt-know-did-not-know-that-idk-gif-17888366).

lemmy.world clobbered the gif in the main upload btw. Brought it in and turned it into a mp4, which the default web view doesn't know what to do with when the thumbnail is expanded. (apps and frontends like photon have been able to process it though.)

Re: removing the link. Yeah, it's probably for the best if links to services like that are kept to DMs (especially here on .world)

Yeah I think something must be going on with the website. It's very strange. I'll wait a bit, maybe it'll kick into life later.

Will do, thanks.

Cheers is a gif, Lana is an MP4, Cavill is a webp hosted on Lemmy, and Dance Off is a webp hosted externally.

Yeah, I think all the apps are in relatively early stages, and the Devs have all prioritised different things. But I'll look into their Communities/GitHub sites and see if there's already an issue raised, or if I should raise one.

The Lana was bit middling on my tests too. Weirdly Cavill worked on Sync for Android when I first tested it, but now it's decided that it's a still image.

So this means that of mp4, webp and gif, the most inefficient one is the one with the most widespread support. Oh, well - the community is called 'gifs' after all!