Render uploaded video files?

[orschiro]

Dear all,

Coming from this Twitter conversation, I would like to hear your thoughts on supporting the direct rendering of uploaded video files (e.g. mkv).

This would be a very useful feature to share a video screencast without having to download the video file first to play it.

Thankfully,

~Robert

[ultramancool]

We already support this using the video tag, as for mkv though, I'm not
sure many browsers support it. Try an webm or an h.264 mp4 and you should
be set for most browsers.
On Apr 14, 2016 11:54, "Robert Orzanna" [email protected] wrote:

Dear all,

Coming from this
https://twitter.com/riseupnet/status/720617136499068928?cn=cmVwbHk%3D&refsrc=email
Twitter conversation, I would like to hear your thoughts on supporting the
direct rendering of uploaded video files (e.g. mkv).

This would be a very useful feature to share a video screencast without
having to download the video file first to play it.

Thankfully,

~Robert

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[orschiro]

Dear @ultramancool,

Thank you for your quick reply and suggestion!

I use Vokoscreen to record
screencast which provides the following video settings:

1. Videocodec libx264 with format mkv or avi

2. Videocodec mpeg4 with format mkv or avi

Thus, mp4 is not directly supported.

Which is the one I should choose of these two?

Thankfully,

~Robert

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On Apr 14 2016, at 6:03 pm, ultramancool <[email protected]>
wrote:

We already support this using the video tag, as for mkv though, I'm not
sure many browsers support it. Try an webm or an h.264 mp4 and you should
be set for most browsers.
On Apr 14, 2016 11:54, "Robert Orzanna" <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> Coming from this
> <https://twitter.com/riseupnet/status/720617136499068928?cn=cmVwbHk%3D
&refsrc=email>
> Twitter conversation, I would like to hear your thoughts on supporting
the
> direct rendering of uploaded video files (e.g. mkv).
>
> This would be a very useful feature to share a video screencast without
> having to download the video file first to play it.
>
> Thankfully,
>
> ~Robert
>
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> You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.
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[pielover88888]

Sadly it seems your recording software does not directly allow you to record as mp4. You could convert the .mkv file with something like Handbrake before uploading, then you should be able to view it in the browser after it's uploaded.

[orschiro]

@pielover88888,

Thanks for your reference to Handbrake. I will give it a try! 👍

~Robert