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D3XUS - We fall because someone pushes us. We get up to push back.
Talk ♦ You get love for it, you get hate for it, you get nothing if you wait for it. - 04:14, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
A lot of you know me as the guy who added a gazillion gifs to the Wiki for lots of things. Now that the semester is winding down for me and I'll be able to get back to this, I wanted to propose the addition of an extension that would make this a **lot** easier: the implementation of HTML5 video in place of gifs. The primary video format that I would love to see is .webm; it's essentially a miniature video, but of much higher quality and much better file size. You can see a technical writeup on it here. Essentially, webm displays video instead of a string of images in a much more efficient manner than gifs are currently capable of doing. More reading.

TL;DR: Using WebM gives us much higher quality animations for scenes, weapons, limits, and more. They aren't even animations at that point; they're real videos. If any of you use Imgur, 99.99% of all their animated gifs are gifv, which is a renamed version of the webm extension.

TimedMediaHandler MediaWiki Extension

Using webm would be the same as current files. Just [[File:ImAVideo.webm]] and you're all set. The above extension in particular also allows us to begin a video from a specific spot; that is, it's possible to have a much longer video and only show portions of it where necessary instead of uploading individual files that get all over the place. I don't know if we **want** to use that part, just something extra I thought might be cool.

What do you think? I know I've been gone for a while and I might not have any real say, but I thought it was worth bringing up.
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