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  • klu9@piefed.socialtoChevron 7@lemmy.world•MRW I render a GIF and see the file sizeEnglish
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    vor 13 Tagen

    Just to be clear, I don’t have a Wafrn account; I saw an animated WebP on Mastodon from someone else & when I asked them how they made it work, they told me they use Wafrn.

    But that reminds me: I have a basically unused Sharkey account. Let me see what happens there:

    • Original Mastodon post viewed on Sharkey: the AVIF is displayed with video controls, but it remains unanimated even when pressing the Play button :(
    • Posting the animated AVIF from Sharkey, viewed on Sharkey: success! No video controls, just an animated image https://federation.network/notes/artlgrdmabzh01ab
    • That animated AVIF posted from Sharkey but viewed on Mastodon: failure! unanimated.

    Sharkey’s no good for watch parties anyways, doesn’t really follow a hashtag live. Also I think Sharkey development has been abandoned, don’t know if that instance will migrate to MIsskey or what.

  • klu9@piefed.socialtoChevron 7@lemmy.world•MRW I render a GIF and see the file sizeEnglish
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    vor 13 Tagen

    TIL AVIF supports animation!

    In watch parties on Mastodon, I often want to post an animation as a quick gag but an animated Webp posted from Mastodon will only display as a still (but Masto will animate an animated Webp posted from other compatible platforms like Wafrn 🤨). (I saved a whole bunch of your 30 Rock webps before realizing this 😅.)

    As I don’t want to overload Fediverse instances with giant GIFs, I tend to put them thru ezgif.com first & convert to MP4. Even some that are already in MP4, I’ll squeeze down further at ezgif. (I don’t have the command-line-fu to just run them thru ffmpeg or some such. I need GUI.)

    Actually, nowadays I look for GIFs on tenor.com first, then pick the MP4 option.

    I wish I could just use lighter animated image formats like Webp & AVIF, but given how many sites / programs still refuse to handle JPEGs if the file extension is .jpeg instead of .jpg 🤦, I won’t hold my breath expecting them to support these other formats.

    PS I just tested uploading your Carter animated AVIF on my main Mastodon account & my alt (Mastodon Glitch).

    Mastodon 4.7.2

    Mastodon Glitch v4.5.18-EXQ1.01+glitch

    • I can choose & upload it but when upload completes:

    422 Validation failed: File has contents that are not what they are reported to be

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