So I had a clip I wanted to upload to a lemmy comment:

  • Tried it as an (avc) mp4… Failed.
  • OK, too big? I shrink it to 2MB, then 1MB. Failed.
  • VP9 Webm maybe? 2MB, 1MB, failed. AV1? Failed.
  • OK, fine, no video. Lets try an animated AVIF. Failed. It seems lemmy doesn’t even take static AVIF images
  • WebP animation then… Failed. Animated PNG, failed.

End result, I have to burden the server with a massive, crappy looking GIF after trying a dozen formats. With all due respect, this is worse than some aging service like Reddit that doesn’t support new media formats.

For reference, I’m using the web interface. Is this just a format restriction of lemmy.world, or an underlying software support issue?

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    4·
    6 days ago

    You generally can embed them the same way as you would a gif with the ![](url) format

    That’s how I just embedded this mp4. ![](https://files.catbox.moe/ppcrz0.mp4) Works fine on desktop/web, is a bit broken for phone apps, depending on the app.

    • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldOP
      1·
      6 days ago

      Still, maybe Lemmy.world (and other instances?) should allow uploading of videos that are about the size of images. Maybe a limit of 768KB?

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        3·
        6 days ago

        You should probably talk to the devs, as I’m pretty sure this is just how Lemmy works. It’s not very format-friendly, on any instance. But then I think they want to center text as more important than images/video.

        Also, storage space is expensive, so I think they’re trying to minimize impact to admins who have a bunch of throwaway media uploaded to their servers to be viewed once and then never again.

        • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldOP
          2·
          6 days ago

          Github issue then? M, okay.

          That’s a great thing about Lemmy I suppose, there’s somewhere to go to discuss features that isn’t a black hole, lol.