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STRML / Imgur-to-Gfycat

Chrome extension that replaces gifs hosted by imgur to HTML5-optimized video converted and hosted by gfycat.
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Imgur layout breaking #12

Open dluechoy opened 10 years ago

dluechoy commented 10 years ago

The layout broke while I was browsing the page linked to.

The image flickers back and forth, cover the other elements on the page, except for the browse next/previous buttons.

Clicking the pause control then play seems to have corrected the flicker and timing.

Highlighting seems to sometimes cause the image to squash itself to teh correct width, but it remains centred to the same place, blocking other elements.

http://imgur.com/gallery/uVxSOtI

similar problems on gifsound.com

http://gifsound.com/?gif=i.imgur.com/uVxSOtI.gif&v=GSpSrHEUOJY

Browsing with Chrome Version 33.0.1750.154 m . Extension version 1.4.2 .

(seperate issue) the animation timing was also broken by gfycat.

STRML commented 10 years ago

This is the combination of a few issues I've seen with gfycat's conversions. I've seen the flicker in a few other gifs right at the loop point - it's not present in the source gif and often is still present on gfycat's main site.

It appears that gfycat has a few transcoding issues, and unfortunately I can't fix those.

I am going to leave this issue open though as there is one thing I can fix - the gfy should not overflow its container if it is too large for it.

dluechoy commented 10 years ago

gfycat tries to mitigate the flicker by using a jpg "poster" as a background to the videocontainer.

I still notice it, but it's less annoying than blank space while the video rewinds...