Forum:Official WebM Support

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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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Chitalian8 Say... — Mother and Father call me Joshua. I guess you can call me Joshua, too... Since you're my dear, dear partner.

I don't see how this is my fault. You're the one who refuses to call me Pink. — 04:34, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

20px-Pin_000.png I'm pretty familiar with how effective webms can be over gifs, so as long as they can be implemented with the same functionality as our current gifs (work with the thumbnail frame, automatically play/loop) then I'm all for it. 60fps fast-loading webms would be lovely to have.