Scorpius Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 Great site folks! I may have a tough one, if not impossible to resolve, given all its constraints. I am attempting to locate a free or reasonably rated video hosting site where I can store animated gif files which are no larger than 2 to 3 MB. I would like to use these relatively small video files as signatures/publications on sites very much like this one. The problem I am having, as you may already imagine, is finding a site that provide true streaming of the hotlinked file where the viewer will see the animated video immediately without needing any plugins or to initiate play, hence the decision to use animated gif as my video filetype. In fact, I prefer not to use a player like what is required when using Quicktime or Flash files. How would I embed the animated gif file in the blog post (or more to the point, the signature which would append it to each post) that would display it fullsize, approx. 400x85, (not just a thumbnail that would require clicking on it)? Thanks in advance for any help you can provide! Happy Holidays! Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 Welcome to the forums Scorpius Sorry I don't have an answer for you as I have never head of anyone creating a large gif file and attempted to stream it. As for true streaming you cannot do that on a shared server. You can serve your files with normal http:// or img tags. Quote
Scorpius Posted December 31, 2007 Author Posted December 31, 2007 (edited) Yeah, that's logical and pretty much what I expected, but no harm in trying! For what I want to do, I suppose the first place to start is to considerably reduce the file size. Thanks for your quick response. Edited December 31, 2007 by Scorpius Quote
MikeJ Posted January 2, 2008 Posted January 2, 2008 How would I embed the animated gif file in the blog post (or more to the point, the signature which would append it to each post) that would display it fullsize, approx. 400x85, (not just a thumbnail that would require clicking on it)? There's no difference between embedding a normal .gif and an animated .gif. How you do that in a blog or as a signature depends on the software that runs the blog or forum you are referring to (you don't mention). You'll also need to find an image hosting service that allows hotlinking (or you could just get a $4/month account here and serve your images from it). Quote
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