Re:Serve Videos Instead of GIFs
by deeblering4 on Monday May 18, 2020 @08:46AM
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> How should it handle extreme situations like someone clicking "Copy" on their Plex Web Player embed of a 100GB 4K UHD movie?
You can’t yet. Thats the point. GIFs are not 100GB 4K movies, yet the current state of the art treats the two the same.
We need a standard method to distinguish an (optionally) looping, soundless “GIF” video from a traditional video, and mimic the behavior of an image in the case of a GIF.
Also GIF videos needs to behave like GIF images consistently across all modern browsers and mobile devices.
You can’t yet. Thats the point. GIFs are not 100GB 4K movies, yet the current state of the art treats the two the same.
We need a standard method to distinguish an (optionally) looping, soundless “GIF” video from a traditional video, and mimic the behavior of an image in the case of a GIF.
Also GIF videos needs to behave like GIF images consistently across all modern browsers and mobile devices.