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Is it possible to add support for showing gifv files using the

GIFV:
<- it breaks now.
(http://i.imgur.com/m8XEBUj.gifv)

The tag is called [/code]

daniel34 wrote:The tag is called [/code]

Oh wow, thanks! Maybe add it to the toolbar so everybody knows it?

How do you do this animations?
Do i need a special program for that?

Greetings steini

steinio wrote:How do you do this animations?
Do i need a special program for that?

Greetings steini

I recorded the gif using ScreenToGif, then uploaded the gif to imgur.com.
If the gif is large, imgur will automatically convert it into gifv.
One thing I discovered about the [webm] tag is that it only supports mp4, but not gifv directly. You can obtain the mp4 link simply by changing ".gifv" to ".mp4"

Mooncat wrote:I recorded the gif using ScreenToGif, then uploaded the gif to imgur.com.
If the gif is large, imgur will automatically convert it into gifv.
One thing I discovered about the [webm] tag is that it only supports mp4, but not gifv directly. You can obtain the mp4 link simply by changing ".gifv" to ".mp4"

If your tool records it as .gif and imgur later converts it to .mp4 you'll lose some quality since gifs only support 256 colors.

There are several tools that automatically record and upload videos, I'm using Gyazo. Start the recording by selecting the screen area and click the finish button when it should end, it will automatically upload it and open it in your browser. It's limited to 10 or 15 seconds though, for longer recordings I use OBS, then manually convert it to .mp4 and upload it somewhere.

The webm tag should support every webm video your browser supports, I think this includes the .webm format and most .mp4 files. On Chrome you can right-click any video and choose "Copy video address" to get directly to the correct file.

daniel34 wrote:

Mooncat wrote:I recorded the gif using ScreenToGif, then uploaded the gif to imgur.com.
If the gif is large, imgur will automatically convert it into gifv.
One thing I discovered about the [webm] tag is that it only supports mp4, but not gifv directly. You can obtain the mp4 link simply by changing ".gifv" to ".mp4"

If your tool records it as .gif and imgur later converts it to .mp4 you'll lose some quality since gifs only support 256 colors.

There are several tools that automatically record and upload videos, I'm using Gyazo. Start the recording by selecting the screen area and click the finish button when it should end, it will automatically upload it and open it in your browser. It's limited to 10 or 15 seconds though, for longer recordings I use OBS, then manually convert it to .mp4 and upload it somewhere.

The webm tag should support every webm video your browser supports, I think this includes the .webm format and most .mp4 files. On Chrome you can right-click any video and choose "Copy video address" to get directly to the correct file.

Thanks for the suggestion. I will try Gyazo and OBS when I have time.

Mooncat wrote:Oh wow, thanks! Maybe add it to the toolbar so everybody knows it?

Okay i added it to the toolbar

steinio wrote:How do you do this animations?
Do i need a special program for that?

Greetings steini

I highly recommend ShareX:
https://getsharex.com/

And use it with ffmpeg:
https://ffmpeg.org/

You can set it to record and upload to gfycat with a single hotkey, I use for all my gif needs

Klonan wrote:

Mooncat wrote:Oh wow, thanks! Maybe add it to the toolbar so everybody knows it?

Okay i added it to the toolbar

So quick! Thanks a lot.
And thanks for sharing ShareX. It seems very powerful!