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by mbell 4355 days ago
I looked over mediacru.sh and unless I'm missing something it doesn't serve the same purpose as gfycat. The point of gfycat is to upload a gif, it converts it to webm then it gives you a bit of embed code that will try to use the webm variant but will fall back to the gif when unsupported. I didn't see anything in mediacru.sh's code that would allow gif <-> video conversion, I tried uploading a few gifs on their site as well and didn't get any video options back from the API.
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Mediacru.sh should give you a "view as html 5" option. It did for me when I uploaded a gif a few minutes ago.