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A friend of mine is working on http://www.giflike.com/ http://www.giflike.com/ It's "like animated gifs", but implemented with JPEGs + javascript. JPEG encodin
by ProblemFactory 13y ago
A friend of mine is working on http://www.giflike.com/ http://www.giflike.com/
It's "like animated gifs", but implemented with JPEGs + javascript. JPEG encoding is much more efficient for photos, and doing the animation in javascript enables fun features such as reversing and scrolling through frames in the browser.
- lrem 13y agoSo, he is reinventing MJPEG, in Javascript... I can't find the proper words to comment this.
- johansch 13y agoHow about "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"? :)
- nikcub 13y agoThere was a codec in the mid-90s that porn sites and some illegal warez groups used that was essentially this. At the time your options were either AVI or a very expensive commercial solution, so someone came up with splitting video files into JPEG's and streaming them over the web and using javascript to slice them back together. I remember watching star wars on one of the earliest web streaming sites - the image was around 150x150px and would refresh once per second. It was still the most awesome thing I had ever seen at the time, though.
- wiml 13y agoIt was probably multipart/x-mixed-replace, rather than javascript.