So I had a clip I wanted to upload to a lemmy comment:

  • Tried it as an (avc) mp4… Failed.
  • OK, too big? I shrink it to 2MB, then 1MB. Failed.
  • VP9 Webm maybe? 2MB, 1MB, failed. AV1? Failed.
  • OK, fine, no video. Lets try an animated AVIF. Failed. It seems lemmy doesn’t even take static AVIF images
  • WebP animation then… Failed. Animated PNG, failed.

End result, I have to burden the server with a massive, crappy looking GIF after trying a dozen formats. With all due respect, this is worse than some aging service like Reddit that doesn’t support new media formats.

For reference, I’m using the web interface. Is this just a format restriction of lemmy.world, or an underlying software support issue?

  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
    5·
    7 days ago

    Doesn’t work for me:

    No video with supported formate and MIME type found.

    code "validate-file-size"

    msg "Resonse body larger than size limit"

    *on sopuli.xyz

    It works on my lemmy.ca account tho, but only after I enable java scripts for the video embeds.