WebM Embed Plugin

a_5mith

All we need is for imgur to start supporting this so we can just add it to the plugin.

Seem to recall them mentioning they had no intention of doing so yet though.

shinyidol

@shinyidol I love WebM!

Not sure what's required to show a webm plugin, though? Natively supported by browsers?

They display natively, but only when called by a player or <video>. To get this working a simple plugin would let a user embed a .webm file and fill in the <video></video> for them. 4Chan capped theirs to being 15 seconds long and no sound.

  <source src="url" 'video/webm;codecs="vp8, vorbis"'
</video>```

It would be nice if imgur supported it, but that doesn't look like it will happen.

I'm seeing people make Chrome extensions that will just see the link and display, such as this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/webm-for-neogaf/gcjkaaggachnbhepejjhfacpldjflffl

a_5mith

Going to be looking into this this evening, seems like a good time to learn how to make a plugin.

psychobunny

Forget about WebM. GIF's are where it's at: nyan

a_5mith

imgur are adding support for webm as a fallback to their own version of it called gifv.

No gif could express how good this is. any gifs uploaded to imgur will automatically be converted to gifv. All existing gifs have been converted too. Not sure how we go about supporting it though just yet.

LEt's try this:

http://i.imgur.com/zvATqgs.gifv

fuzzmz

@a_5mith, correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I understand from their Introducing GIFV blog post .gifv is a MP4 container and not a WebM one.

Basically they just use that wrapper to avoid having playback controls around the video.

a_5mith

@fuzzmz Correct, but they're using webm as a fallback if the browser doesn't support flash/mp4 playback in the coming weeks. (Was confirmed via twitter here)

julian

Wow, that works surprisingly well. Gfycat bankedon WebM with an mp4 fallback, but imgur seems to have taken the opposite approach, and it's working well for them.

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Xanthrop

How do I get this working? I am trying to allow embed of gifv. Here, it embeds just fine. On my board, it just pastes as a hyperlink.

PitaJ

@xanthrop nodebb-plugin-iframely

Xanthrop

@pitaj Thank you, I installed this and restarted. If I paste the url

https://i.imgur.com/zw6fujO

It just looks like that in my composer, it doesn't retrieve the content from the url and display it, like it does below.

https://i.imgur.com/zw6fujO

Xanthrop

oh it needs an api. is it a pay service only?

teh_g

@xanthrop said in WebM Embed Plugin:

oh it needs an api. is it a pay service only?

They have a free tier for pretty low number of hits on their API (1000 / month). You can also self-deploy if you don't want to host it yourself.

I use their hosted option on my forum, it has been great.

Xanthrop

perfect! where in the admin do i enter the api info? i dont see a section in the plugins drop down.

PitaJ

@xanthrop did you rebuild and restart?

Xanthrop

@pitaj yes, but I didn't refresh my admin page afterwards. Thank you again!