What is this “video” word you speak of?
Some things are a mystery ig ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Submitted 3 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to [deleted]
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ba48218e-1ea9-444c-a5a8-110f65d60aa2.jpeg
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TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
cm0002@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m not entirely sure, but the way it was explained to me was that you take a bunch of pictures and kinda smoosh them together ig, doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me but it’s a thing
TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Real? Woaw we really live in an age of technological advancements :3
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
A bunch of pictures smooshed together? Like a collage?
fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It’s like what we used to call “talkies”. There were moving pictures without a guy playing piano and weird title text dialogue.
callouscomic@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
More like AI generated anything. Turns posts into circlejerk arguments about AI and nothing to do with the post. Sensitive.
tenchiken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Exactly! My ADHD ass isn’t going to watch a 3 hour video of what can be written in easy to digest paragraphs!
jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I am not alone. There are others like me.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Tbf most of my Lemmy browsing is when I’m commuting somewhere.
I could theoretically pull out my earbuds and see what a video post is about but text is sp much easier, it’s all there laid out instantaneously…uncurable_utopia@lemm.ee 3 weeks ago
So it wasn’t only me who couldn’t see any video posts…?!
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Video posts totally work on Lemmy. However, the video must be on the “free and open internet”. Allow me to explain.
Lemmy, like Reddit, only allows for text posts and link posts. You can make “media posts” because most instances will allow media upload via a pict-rs server running on a subdomain, seamlessly creating a link post when you do.
However, this only applies to media you can obtain a direct link to. Other than instance-specific* pict-rs, the only major public sites that allow direct URL hosting are Catbox and GitHub. We don’t have deals with major video hosting sites like YouTube, TikTok, v.redd.it, imgur etc. to embed videos when someone posts a link to the website the video is hosted on. Therefore, any link posts will have to be opened as an external website, which is very annoying indeed, especially for the aforementioned JS-heavy sites (unless the other user has an alternative frontend app such as Piped or NewPipe set up).
* Instance shenanigans: Some instances impose a very small size limit to uploads or only allow a certain time after account creation (both for lemm.ee for instance). You won’t usually see admins sharing what restrictions they put in place, but we can get a good guess from the defaults (error 502 currently, see archive). These defaults remain unchanged by many instance admins and the TL;DR is:
Applies to any media
Static pictures
webp,jpg,png,jxl)Animated pictures (colloquially known as gifs)
webp(recommended),apng,gif,avif)Videos
You can see that video upload is very limiting! If you’re tech-savvy you can get a lot out of the 10 MiB and 900 frames but you need some ffmpeg skills. Therefore, your best bet is uploading to catbox.moe or GitHub, obtaining a direct link to the file and pasting it as a link post URL. Or just paste the YouTube, TikTok, v.redd.it, imgur etc. URL and deal with the fact people will have to open the heavy website (or their alt-frontend app like NewPipe).
lena@gregtech.eu 3 weeks ago
Just a small correction, it doesn’t necessarily run on a subdomain. Mine doesn’t. See my cat pic: gregtech.eu/…/b22f171d-8fa3-416e-818e-5216c5a4851…
Mexigore@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Upvotedcuscat
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 weeks ago
If you upload to PeerTube it embeds just fine on Lemmy.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
What frontend are you using? Surely not the default web interface or Voyager!
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks ago
You don’t need “deals” with YouTube etc. for videos. You just…do it. YouTube supports embedding natively. Imgur I’m pretty sure can be directly linked. Not sure about the others.
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I explained it in another comment. This was a simplification that’s true for i.redd.it and v.redd.it (which block embeds with CORS), the native web UI doesn’t do iframe embeds for privacy reasons.
Kualdir@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
Do you need a deal with those instances to be able to have an iFrame to embed the video?
Like from the small web dev stuff I’ve done while learning programming I was easily able to embed my video in my webpage (from youtube)?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I simplified it a bit. Imgur and Reddit block embeds with CORS or something so you do need a deal.
For YouTube, you need to get a special embed URL, like
https://youtube.com/embed/videoIDhere. That’s easy to generate but if your site includes embedded YouTube videos it also means visitors agree to their ToS, and Lemmy devs don’t want that. Believing in net neutrality, they would need to enable ALL iframe embeds from ALL websites, which could easily get messy with vulnerabilities, phishing and whatnot.