Show HN: Put “gifs.com/save” in front of any Vine link

Show HN: Put “gifs.com/save” in front of any Vine link(gifs.com)

64 points by kobbad 9 years ago | 12 comments

Put /raw at the end of any Vine URL to download the mp4.

niftich 9 years ago |

Your gif converter is neat. But why do you re-encode the mp4? I understand that's necessary for the general case of taking in an arbitrary video, but since you're ingesting a pre-processed mp4 and producing an mp4, why the lossy conversion?

Original: https://v.cdn.vine.co/r/videos/F91F3B3C4A1403892123400577024...

sha1: fe3f47da5fcd6b812aceabca1261d83140d83325

Converted: https://j.gifs.com/66YY8R.mp4

sha1: 40c143447b02b7c919e20794593be4c95918bd56

alanh 9 years ago |

This doesn't look like a GIF. I didn’t count the colors, but that looks like full/true color to me.

I have no problem with that, but it says it’s a GIF…?

i336_ 9 years ago | |

Sadly the name has come to mean "moving sequence of frames" nowadays. WebM and MP4 provide this functionality using significantly less bandwidth.

This may be of interest: https://www.google.com.au/search?q=pixel+art&tbs=itp:animate... http://revangale.tumblr.com/

johnwheeler 9 years ago |

Why do I have to register with you to download a gif?

kobbad 9 years ago |

Putting "gifs.com/save/" in front of any Vine link (or Instagram!) converts it into a gif - you'll need an account.

Can also gif live streams (FB, Twitch, Youtube Live, Periscope), and any other video website by going to the home page.

kr0 9 years ago |

But half the point is audio?

RoryGlyphic 9 years ago | |

Co-founder popping in! We make a .mp4 with sound!

You'll get the .gif automatically: https://j.gifs.com/Q1AA6L.gif and you can change the extension for the .mp4: https://j.gifs.com/Q1AA6L.mp4

You can click on add effects to do a bunch of neat stuff as well.

minimaxir 9 years ago |

Upvotes on this HN submission may be manipulated: http://i.imgur.com/yIwWqLC.png

austinjv 9 years ago |

you guys are killin it!

i336_ 9 years ago | |

This account only ever seems to have replied to three things, one >1000 days ago. Really weird.

(I don't think HN completely deletes comments like this, so I don't think there's some huge pile of extra stuff I can't see, unlike with reddit)

cesis 9 years ago | |

Fake accounts and manipulated upvotes.