I’m using the browser version (Firefox on a laptop) and it works for me as well: It has a huge preview and I can watch the actual video without it redirecting me offsite.
Thanks for the screenshot. I don’t have a working laptop right now to check how Lemmy works on PC. I didn’t realise that the display of media in the mobile and desktop version could be different. Probably because some people don’t use the mobile version there is a misunderstanding and they don’t understand what we are talking about.
However, the problem with displaying videos in the mobile version has been around for a long time. Also, after clicking on the dark square that is displayed instead of the preview, you are prompted to open the video in a new tab as if you were opening another site.
after clicking on the dark square that is displayed instead of the preview, you are prompted to open the video in a new tab as if you were opening another site.
Defo different for me. When I click it, no matter whether viewed in the post or from the community, it just opens the video like in the screenshot. It only opens in a new tab when I click on the tiny “v.redd.it” under the title, but I guess that’s meant to happen (?)
The question is, why it works that way for me but not on your end. It might be because we’re on different instances (I’m on lemmy.world) and there are sometimes differences between the various UI’s, including functionality. It might be a browser/desktop/mobile issue. It could even be an anti-ad program on your device blocking the preview because it seems like a pop-up, or something in the settings that isn’t quite right, or a programming mistake that prevents the video preview from showing up in certain apps. Hard to say without looking at the code =/
It might be a good idea to file a bug report and/or request the “missing” feature so a supporter can take a look at the issue. Provided it isn’t on their to-do-list already, of course.
On IOS, I found Arctic and Avelon to be able to embed videos directly on the post. You need to pay to scrub videos/gifs in Avelon though, that’s why I use Arctic specifically for that.
YouTube previews are displayed normally. I suppose this problem occurs only with direct links, example www.site.com/827474/mycats.mp4
As you saw in the screenshots, for the test I used direct links to videos uploaded to reddit and the x0.at service.
I did the test in two different browsers and in two different instances. I’ve also read in the comments under various video posts that other people are also discovering this problem.
I can see this inline webm hosted on lemmy.world in a comment on the Web UI on lemmy.today. Lemmy.world is gonna have upload size limitations that’ll keep that from being used for anything very large, but I assume that as long as someone can find a place to host it, they can embed inline videos, so probably a bit late on that.
Obviously small text messages takes less storage, but as they are more abundant, they can take up more bandwidth (the protocol takes its fair share for everything). And storage maybe (edit: as they are sent around more often)?
We all know that (sort of) texts < jpg < gif < mp3 …
But one part is storage, a totally other part is bandwidth. Two very different beasts.
I think we can try out video, if it isn’t “stupid videos” (“fun” or for angering). Let meta and reddit handle those ones.
Hosting videos requires much more storage and performance than text and images. So for most privatly run instances not anytime soon.
Users can save videos to their cloud services, such as gdrive, and insert a direct link to the video when creating a post.
I don’t think that displaying previews of videos hosted on third-party services will take more resources than previews of gif images.
Posts with external video links already have previews. Do you mean in the comments? I’d rather not have that …
Are you serious?
This is what it looks like in Jerboa https://pixshare.de/images/iLzOo8.jpeg
Here’s what the video display looks like on web instances.
https://pixshare.de/images/iLzPDJ.jpeg
Well, if you’re using a 3rd party app, you need to address that with app developers. Try !jerboa@lemmy.ml
There are previews on the standard desktop web interface.
If you enable the “PC version” setting in your mobile browser, it looks like this
https://pixshare.de/images/iLKEtn.jpeg
Just a black square.
I’m using the browser version (Firefox on a laptop) and it works for me as well: It has a huge preview and I can watch the actual video without it redirecting me offsite.
Thanks for the screenshot. I don’t have a working laptop right now to check how Lemmy works on PC. I didn’t realise that the display of media in the mobile and desktop version could be different. Probably because some people don’t use the mobile version there is a misunderstanding and they don’t understand what we are talking about.
However, the problem with displaying videos in the mobile version has been around for a long time. Also, after clicking on the dark square that is displayed instead of the preview, you are prompted to open the video in a new tab as if you were opening another site.
Defo different for me. When I click it, no matter whether viewed in the post or from the community, it just opens the video like in the screenshot. It only opens in a new tab when I click on the tiny “v.redd.it” under the title, but I guess that’s meant to happen (?)
The question is, why it works that way for me but not on your end. It might be because we’re on different instances (I’m on lemmy.world) and there are sometimes differences between the various UI’s, including functionality. It might be a browser/desktop/mobile issue. It could even be an anti-ad program on your device blocking the preview because it seems like a pop-up, or something in the settings that isn’t quite right, or a programming mistake that prevents the video preview from showing up in certain apps. Hard to say without looking at the code =/
It might be a good idea to file a bug report and/or request the “missing” feature so a supporter can take a look at the issue. Provided it isn’t on their to-do-list already, of course.
On IOS, I found Arctic and Avelon to be able to embed videos directly on the post. You need to pay to scrub videos/gifs in Avelon though, that’s why I use Arctic specifically for that.
Well, all I can say it works for me.
https://pixshare.de/iLKfmK
Not sure what frontend you’re using or if it is maybe instance depended, but the feature isn’t missing from the lemmy core.
YouTube previews are displayed normally. I suppose this problem occurs only with direct links, example www.site.com/827474/mycats.mp4
As you saw in the screenshots, for the test I used direct links to videos uploaded to reddit and the x0.at service.
I did the test in two different browsers and in two different instances. I’ve also read in the comments under various video posts that other people are also discovering this problem.
https://lemmy.today/comment/4211739
I can see this inline webm hosted on lemmy.world in a comment on the Web UI on lemmy.today. Lemmy.world is gonna have upload size limitations that’ll keep that from being used for anything very large, but I assume that as long as someone can find a place to host it, they can embed inline videos, so probably a bit late on that.
Obviously small text messages takes less storage, but as they are more abundant, they can take up more bandwidth (the protocol takes its fair share for everything). And storage maybe (edit: as they are sent around more often)?
We all know that (sort of) texts < jpg < gif < mp3 …
But one part is storage, a totally other part is bandwidth. Two very different beasts.
I think we can try out video, if it isn’t “stupid videos” (“fun” or for angering). Let meta and reddit handle those ones.