Post by Mr Momentum & the Sidesteppers on Apr 6, 2014 19:07:11 GMT -5
UPDATED
DOWNLOAD THIS: www.mediafire.com/?k3ues2ra77uohw0
Alright, here's the deal, and I'm dead serious.
We should start our own company, before someone else does. We should make the imgur equivalent of a .webm hosting service, BEFORE imgur implements .webm uploading capabilities. Because let me assure you, if we don't do it, SOMEONE ELSE WILL.
Old and busted: h.264, .gif, other shitty video/animated image formats and codecs.
New hotness: .webm
www.webmproject.org/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM
This shit is fucking dope. Seriously, you get butter smooth video playback, often times at more than decent bitrates. Audio can be in the file if you want. Works natively on almost all major web browsers (except IE I believe).
Basically moot caught on to how dope .webm is (as did YouTube/Google) and now everyone is posting .webms all over 4chan and most videos on YouTube are now .webm format, people are making scripts and GUIs to easily facilitate the creation of .webm files. If you don't believe me, go to /v/. People are still freaking out about it, there's more than likely at least one .webm thread. I will not be surprised at all if moot creates a /webm/ board that lets you post 100MB .webm files. People will be posting entire TV shows and movies soon. On an imageboard like 4chan, the .webm files loop beautifully and fit in seamlessly with the decade old concept of an imageboard, despite many of them almost being an entire minute long. I KNOW that within 5 years, EVERYTHING will be using this. It works too well!
I'm going to upload here a folder with a bunch of .webm files. You guys can download the folder and check it out for yourself how cool this shit is, and keep in mind ALL of these were just made by losers on 4chan.
We should create a website, ad-supported, which lets people upload and view .webm files easily as something like imgur works.
Because I am almost SURE imgur will get onto this shit, if not another website like it will pop up. Eventually even a forum like ProBoards (and practically every forum) will make it simple to post .webm files.
Check it out (my personal favourite one is the one of robocop blowing a bunch of people's cocks off, same link as above):
www.mediafire.com/?k3ues2ra77uohw0
Things to take a look at: yes, none of these have audio because no one on 4chan actually wanted to put audio in it (it would up the filesize, and you can only upload images 3MB or below on most boards, and 4chan treats them just like images). HOWEVER, the quality of all of these is remarkably better than that of a .gif file and also much, much smaller than most .gifs (or .mp4s or what have you for that matter) of a similar animation would be.
This was taken from the 4chan post outlining the the update to .webm compatibility:
DOWNLOAD THIS: www.mediafire.com/?k3ues2ra77uohw0
Alright, here's the deal, and I'm dead serious.
We should start our own company, before someone else does. We should make the imgur equivalent of a .webm hosting service, BEFORE imgur implements .webm uploading capabilities. Because let me assure you, if we don't do it, SOMEONE ELSE WILL.
Old and busted: h.264, .gif, other shitty video/animated image formats and codecs.
New hotness: .webm
www.webmproject.org/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebM
This shit is fucking dope. Seriously, you get butter smooth video playback, often times at more than decent bitrates. Audio can be in the file if you want. Works natively on almost all major web browsers (except IE I believe).
Basically moot caught on to how dope .webm is (as did YouTube/Google) and now everyone is posting .webms all over 4chan and most videos on YouTube are now .webm format, people are making scripts and GUIs to easily facilitate the creation of .webm files. If you don't believe me, go to /v/. People are still freaking out about it, there's more than likely at least one .webm thread. I will not be surprised at all if moot creates a /webm/ board that lets you post 100MB .webm files. People will be posting entire TV shows and movies soon. On an imageboard like 4chan, the .webm files loop beautifully and fit in seamlessly with the decade old concept of an imageboard, despite many of them almost being an entire minute long. I KNOW that within 5 years, EVERYTHING will be using this. It works too well!
I'm going to upload here a folder with a bunch of .webm files. You guys can download the folder and check it out for yourself how cool this shit is, and keep in mind ALL of these were just made by losers on 4chan.
We should create a website, ad-supported, which lets people upload and view .webm files easily as something like imgur works.
Because I am almost SURE imgur will get onto this shit, if not another website like it will pop up. Eventually even a forum like ProBoards (and practically every forum) will make it simple to post .webm files.
Check it out (my personal favourite one is the one of robocop blowing a bunch of people's cocks off, same link as above):
www.mediafire.com/?k3ues2ra77uohw0
Things to take a look at: yes, none of these have audio because no one on 4chan actually wanted to put audio in it (it would up the filesize, and you can only upload images 3MB or below on most boards, and 4chan treats them just like images). HOWEVER, the quality of all of these is remarkably better than that of a .gif file and also much, much smaller than most .gifs (or .mp4s or what have you for that matter) of a similar animation would be.
This was taken from the 4chan post outlining the the update to .webm compatibility:
Grab ffmpeg from www.ffmpeg.org/download.html
It's a command line tool which means you will have to type things with your keyboard instead of clicking on buttons.
The most trivial operation would be converting gifs:
ffmpeg -i your_gif.gif -c:v libvpx -crf 12 -b:v 500K output.webm
-crf values can go from 4 to 63. Lower values mean better quality.
-b:v is the maximum allowed bitrate. Higher means better quality.
To convert a part of a video file:
ffmpeg -i your_video.mkv -ss 00:00:10.000 -to 00:00:20.000 -c:v libvpx -crf 4 -b:v 1500K -vf scale=640:-1 -an output.webm
-ss is the start position in number of seconds, or in hh:mm:ss[.xxx] format. You can get it using your video player (Ctrl-G in MPC-HC).
-to is the end position.
-vf scale=640:-1 sets the width to 640px. The height will be calculated automatically according to the aspect ratio of the input.
-an disables audio. 4chan will reject your files if they contain audio streams.
Another encoding guide: trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/vpxEncodingGuide
ffmpeg documentation: www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html
Current limits for WebM files on 4chan are:
Maximum file size is 3072KB.
Maximum duration is 120 seconds.
Maximum resolution is 2048x2048 pixels.
No audio streams.
It's a command line tool which means you will have to type things with your keyboard instead of clicking on buttons.
The most trivial operation would be converting gifs:
ffmpeg -i your_gif.gif -c:v libvpx -crf 12 -b:v 500K output.webm
-crf values can go from 4 to 63. Lower values mean better quality.
-b:v is the maximum allowed bitrate. Higher means better quality.
To convert a part of a video file:
ffmpeg -i your_video.mkv -ss 00:00:10.000 -to 00:00:20.000 -c:v libvpx -crf 4 -b:v 1500K -vf scale=640:-1 -an output.webm
-ss is the start position in number of seconds, or in hh:mm:ss[.xxx] format. You can get it using your video player (Ctrl-G in MPC-HC).
-to is the end position.
-vf scale=640:-1 sets the width to 640px. The height will be calculated automatically according to the aspect ratio of the input.
-an disables audio. 4chan will reject your files if they contain audio streams.
Another encoding guide: trac.ffmpeg.org/wiki/vpxEncodingGuide
ffmpeg documentation: www.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg.html
Current limits for WebM files on 4chan are:
Maximum file size is 3072KB.
Maximum duration is 120 seconds.
Maximum resolution is 2048x2048 pixels.
No audio streams.
