Sunday, May 19, 2013

Slight redesign and Quality slider

Quality Slider

So tonight I released the 'Quality Slider' for yt2gif.com.  This slider will control how much data will be  output to the final gif.  It currently has 4 levels (may be upped later if there is a need for it).  1 is lowest quality, while 4 is highest quality.   The reasoning behind not just giving everyone the highest quality possible is that some sites, most notably Tumblr do not accept gifs over a certain threshold, which can be quite annoying to some users.  A sample file size degradation is listed below.

  • Quality Level 1: 551kb
  • Quality Level 2: 831kb
  • Quality Level 3: 2.1mb
  • Quality Level 4: 4.4mb
There are currently two quality level groupings, the old codec of gif that has been used up to this point (which equated to quality level 2, and is the default quality level), and levels 3 & 4, which use the png codec.  Because the two groups each have their own codec, the picture quality will remain the same, but file size is roughly cut in half for most gifs by removing every other frame.  Below are samples of the two quality level groupings.  Hopefully you can tell a difference.



Unfortunately, this feature is not available yet for reverse and append gifs, as this grows file size greatly.  These gifs will remain at quality level 2.

Slight Redesign

I also released a slight redesign of the front page.  Let me know what you think about it.

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