Animated GIFS THREE! (Not Phone Safe)

[MasterBlaster]

 

[Dave Shepard]

I don't understand why I can watch YouTube, but a stupid gif takes a week to load? Not just here, anywhere I run into a gif.

 

[CurSedVoyce]

The more gif to load, the longer it takes.
The more gifs to load also takes longer.

Imma going to take a guess at how it all works vs videos. Just a stab.
Some gifs load faster because they are a smaller file. Less frames per second, lower resolution, less information
Some take longer because of the opposite.
A gif probably loads into your ram and once the file is completely into your memory, plays seamlessly.
A YouTube Video is a stream of info. It loads into your buffer part of the memory a little at a time. But you can play it as it loads.
It may be part of the coding as well. Gif may have more commands in the file to play proper, and not be as efficient, but a streaming video is encoded different to be more efficient.
This is just a guess

 

[MasterBlaster]

It's weird how I have never had a problem, ever.

Crikey.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

"I don't understand why I can watch YouTube, but a stupid gif takes a week to load? Not just here, anywhere I run into a gif"

Same for me. Even more, some don't appear one bit and others just disappear when they are fully loaded.
It's very frustrating, not important at all, but still.

 

[Steve Mack]

Some of you might need an upgrade.

Try this, open Task Manager. If Available is less than 25% of Total you'll have problems and need to upgrade.

Try it just looking at the forum first, then a gif page. With a lot of gifs it will change a lot, available will drop right down.


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[cory]

They are working a bit better here now, the whale and the bear cub and the motorcycle wrecks were awesome.

 

[cory]

Steve, on an Imac, what would you open to check out what you posted above?

 

[pantheraba]

Same here...those two just loaded pronto.

 

[SouthSoundTree-]

Probably adjust your setting to the minimum posts per page will help, if you have a selected a lot of posts per page in your Settings.

 

[MasterBlaster]

That makes a big difference. I'm set to 10 posts per page.

 

[Steve Mack]

Steve, on an Imac, what would you open to check out what you posted above?

I don't much about Mac's but this will tell you. http://www.techfor.us/2015/12/task-manager-mac/

 

[Steve Mack]

I've mentioned before about posts per page, I'm on 10. If you go down to 5, gifs and pictures will load a lot faster.

Settings, then General Settings.

 

[pantheraba]

I am at "default" in the settings...never have changed it.

gifs started loading normally again last day or so...have not changed anything here.

 

[Steve Mack]

 

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[Steve Mack]

 

[pantheraba]

No clue here...those 3 gifs you just posted had NO lag...ready to watch as soon as I scrolled down.

 

[Steve Mack]

 

[MasterBlaster]

That is one stupid looking bump cap!

 

[MasterBlaster]

The last one is the Master.

 

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