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[-] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago
[-] Slow@lemmy.today 13 points 11 months ago

Lemmy's web instances do not display real videos. Also some applications, like Jerboa, do not display videos. Because of this, you have to convert the video to the outdated animated picture format - gif.

This format appears in all applications and web instances, but does not contain audio.

I think if we all flood the developers with requests for video support in Lemmy, things might change.

[-] Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

I thought gifs had support for audio these days? Or is that just a reddit thing?

[-] example@reddthat.com 12 points 11 months ago

those aren't actually gifs.
they're frequently webms.

various people don't care or don't know the difference between media formats though, so they'll just call anything remotely gif-like a gif.

[-] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

It doesn’t help that the shorthand for moving picture sequence is gif. I remember when internet pictures were commonly called jpegs no matter the format. I don’t know what else people should use

[-] Slow@lemmy.today 6 points 11 months ago

The old gif format doesn't support audio. Anything called gif with audio are mp4 video files. On the imgur site, you may have seen files with the extension gifv, but...

Quote : "When you view a GIFV file on a website such as Imgur, you're viewing a video file, which would normally have the file extension .mp4 or .webm. The server is configured to serve the video using the extension ".gifv," but the video's file format is unchanged."

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