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by masswerk 4595 days ago
Er ... "I can now grab the user's webcam stream, generate a GIF, and let the user download or share it on an image hosting platform. And all of this is done in the front-end using a lightweight interface!" ... that's 3 lines (sorry: 4) of native JS, we need node-modules for this?
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secoif 4595 days ago
you can generate a gif with native js?
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masswerk 4595 days ago
Not exactly a gif-image, because of license restrictions (which may also be a problem with any OSS library), but image/png, image/jpeg and (Chrome) image/webp and any animations built of these. (This is a political issue and not a technical one.) To have gif, you would have to implement the algorithm by your own and pay fees or ...
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fraserxv 4595 days ago
Yeap. Check out the code here. https://github.com/fraserxu/gifme There's an awesome library to do this. It's basically capture serval frames and use a algorithem to generate it.
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