Imgur to Gfycat

Replaces animated gifs throughout the internet with gfycat optimized HTML5 videos.

What is Imgur to Gfycat?

"Imgur to Gfycat" is a handy Chrome extension designed to enhance your online viewing experience. This tool automatically replaces animated gifs hosted on imgur with a more optimized version of HTML5 videos, courtesy of Gfycat. The result is smoother playback, lower file sizes, and additional functionality such as pause, play, and seek. The extension also ensures that only already transcoded gifs are replaced, so no waiting time for users. It also supports integration with Reddit Enhancement Suite!

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By: STRML

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Users: 4,000+

Rating: 3.99 (106)

Version: 1.4.8 (Last updated: 2015-04-16)

Creation date: 2015-04-15

Risk impact: Low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

contextMenus

Size: 38.37K

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# 15287 ▼ 43

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#1156 in Art & Design ▼ 45

#18 in cause keyword 25 ▲ 1

#72 in gif keyword 28

#86 in resize keyword 41

#96 in album keyword 24 ▲ 2

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Extension summary

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Works with Reddit Enhancement Suite!

Chrome extension that replaces gifs hosted by imgur to HTML5-optimized video converted and hosted by gfycat. Gfycat is a gif optimization service that compresses gifs into HTML5 videos, where they can enjoy lower file size, GPU acceleration (great on mobile!) and pause/play/seek.

This extension will modify anchor links to gfycat.com/fetch links, which transcode & show the gif after transcoding. img tags with a gif hosted on imgur will trigger a transcodeRelease action, which will cause the gif to be transcoded on gfycat's servers if it hasn't already.

To improve the user experience, gifs are only replaced with gfycat videos if they are already transcoded on gfycat's servers. Otherwise, the original gif is shown. As soon as one user - anywhere - views that gif on gfycat, all users will see the transcoded version when using this extension.

CHANGELOG

v1.4.7

Fix a MutationObserver spec change leading to an error on new browsers.

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