Show HN: Create GIFs from YouTube, Facebook, Twitter most sites that have videos

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If you have a short video to share, don't share them in GIF format, let them be videos instead.

GIFs are a huge burden to digital devices because they have to contain every frame and every piece of information to themselves where on the other hand, videos are usually compressed and every digital device have the algorithm (Open H264 video coded usually) to extract the compressed file and play the video by default, which leads to less disk space, less bandwidth, less data usage, less CPU cycle usage (making the device faster), less electric power usage (2 billion active FB users!).

Further reading:

1) https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/performance/o...

2) https://dougsillars.com/2017/04/12/animated-gifs-vs-video-fi...

Sorry, I'm a CS undergrad and GIFs bug me.

Your point is well taken, however I'm not sure comparing 30 year old technology to today's video format is a fair comparison. The only reason why gifs still exist today despite their limitations is that they can be displayed on all screens being an image format. As you know dealing with video is much more complicated and while modern browsers have no issues with displaying it, many applications do not support it. There are number of issue with using APNG across various mediums also so the good ole gif stays for now. I'm thinking of adding ability to just cut video into any length and can make it looping as well, but for now there seems to be demand for making pure gifs. its a work in progress so number of things will be added. I appreciate your reply!

I enjoyed it, very handy.

Thank you.

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