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I can't right click / long tap and copy and paste a video into another app

by lxe 6y ago

masklinn 6y ago
That’s really an application issue, but god damn is it an annoying one.
- joemi 6y ago
  Gifs (and videos that people call gifs) wouldn’t be what they are today if it weren’t for their ease of copying/saving and pasting/uploading to somewhere else, which you could similarly call an application feature. So this application issue with video (as implemented in this article) is almost certainly what will stop gifs from being replaced.
  - sp332 6y ago
    This only worked properly in Firefox since 2016 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664717 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664717 so that's probably not it.
    - guerrilla 6y ago
      I'm pretty sure I was able to right-click save gifs all the way back to Netscape...
      - sp332 6y ago
        You can also right-click save the videos in the article right now. What I meant was copy and pasting GIFs.
    - joemi 6y ago
      Except it is... The first thing I did when I read the article on my phone was try to save the videos, copy the videos, or copy the links for the videos in the article. I was unable to do any of those actions. I firmly believe that for it to overtake the gif, doing those actions with video on popular phones needs to be as easy (if not easier) than with gifs.
  - ReactiveJelly 6y ago
    But it's being done above the format level entirely. Every browser that can decode video has a "Copy Video URL" context menu item. It's just that the websites hide it to discourage hotlinking
    - anewvillager 6y ago
      but the thing is, i want to copy the video itself not copy the url, paste in a terminal for curl or wget to download it, then copy the video..
    - joemi 6y ago
      I don't think that's necessarily true for mobile browsers, and that's a big and important-to-gif-perpetuation demographic.
    - deleted 6y ago
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- MrStonedOne 6y ago
  No, its a os one. windows, and most other os's, allow copy and pasting images as image data in the clipboard, but can only handle video links, there is no way to natively copy and paste the video contents.
  - the8472 6y ago
    You could treat them as files and use the file copy-paste mechanism.
  - masklinn 6y ago
    > windows, and most other os's, allow copy and pasting images as image data in the clipboard OSX has pasteboard types for png and tiff, yet that doesn't preclude copy/pasting JPEG or SVG. So no it's probably not "a OS one".
    - ubercow13 6y ago
      Does a JPEG you copy get pasted as a PNG though?
seumars 6y ago
Sounds like a microservice waiting to happen

I can't right click / long tap and copy and paste a video into another app

by lxe 6y ago

I can't right click / long tap and copy and paste a video into another app

masklinn 6y ago

That’s really an application issue, but god damn is it an annoying one.

joemi 6y ago
Gifs (and videos that people call gifs) wouldn’t be what they are today if it weren’t for their ease of copying/saving and pasting/uploading to somewhere else, which you could similarly call an application feature. So this application issue with video (as implemented in this article) is almost certainly what will stop gifs from being replaced.
- sp332 6y ago
  This only worked properly in Firefox since 2016 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664717 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=664717 so that's probably not it.
  - guerrilla 6y ago
    I'm pretty sure I was able to right-click save gifs all the way back to Netscape...
    - sp332 6y ago
      You can also right-click save the videos in the article right now. What I meant was copy and pasting GIFs.
  - joemi 6y ago
    Except it is... The first thing I did when I read the article on my phone was try to save the videos, copy the videos, or copy the links for the videos in the article. I was unable to do any of those actions. I firmly believe that for it to overtake the gif, doing those actions with video on popular phones needs to be as easy (if not easier) than with gifs.
- ReactiveJelly 6y ago
  But it's being done above the format level entirely. Every browser that can decode video has a "Copy Video URL" context menu item. It's just that the websites hide it to discourage hotlinking
  - anewvillager 6y ago
    but the thing is, i want to copy the video itself not copy the url, paste in a terminal for curl or wget to download it, then copy the video..
  - joemi 6y ago
    I don't think that's necessarily true for mobile browsers, and that's a big and important-to-gif-perpetuation demographic.
  - deleted 6y ago
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MrStonedOne 6y ago
No, its a os one. windows, and most other os's, allow copy and pasting images as image data in the clipboard, but can only handle video links, there is no way to natively copy and paste the video contents.
- the8472 6y ago
  You could treat them as files and use the file copy-paste mechanism.
- masklinn 6y ago
  > windows, and most other os's, allow copy and pasting images as image data in the clipboard OSX has pasteboard types for png and tiff, yet that doesn't preclude copy/pasting JPEG or SVG. So no it's probably not "a OS one".
  - ubercow13 6y ago
    Does a JPEG you copy get pasted as a PNG though?

seumars 6y ago

Sounds like a microservice waiting to happen