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xdamman / ReplayLastGoal

Automatically create an animated gif with the latest goal at the world cup
MIT License
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Improve gif quality by appropriately sizing gifs #2

Closed jkupferman closed 10 years ago

jkupferman commented 10 years ago

The existing code resized gifs down to 320x240 which twitter then scaled back up to 528x396 resulting in grainy gifs. This change r It also tells gifsicle to limit gif colors to 256 which should reduce file size.

NOTE: This code should be tested to ensure that it generates gifs below the 3MB Twitter limit.

jkupferman commented 10 years ago

While I think this will help with overall quality and size, I suspect you'd get much better results by posting an reasonably sized mp4 to twitter (as a video). You'd be able to achieve much higher video quality and stay well below the twitter video size limit.

xdamman commented 10 years ago

Thanks for this, really appreciate the contribution here. Let me test this first.

I also tweet the link to the mp4. Twitter doesn't let you upload a mp4 unfortunately. The only solution is to have my own player but they would first need to approve it.

xdamman commented 10 years ago

Works great, merging! Thanks again!

FredericJacobs commented 10 years ago

Or reverse the Vine/Instagram API? 0:)