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It's a good start but it's a shame they are limiting file types at all. We have been using GitLab which has allowed this for a while and we use it to share webm
by foobar33333 5y ago
It's a good start but it's a shame they are limiting file types at all. We have been using GitLab which has allowed this for a while and we use it to share webm files which unfortunately still appear to be blacklisted by github.
- eyelidlessness 5y agoHonest question because I might be behind on how common environments behave: is webm the format your OS/device/workflow produces by default or one you convert to for sharing/optimization?
- leipert 5y agoNot GP, but on a Mac, which produces mov per default. Started using Kap to record to webm: https://getkap.co/ https://getkap.co/
- eyelidlessness 5y agoSorry, to clarify, all of my devices are Apple so I expect .mov with H264/H265 encoding. I’m wondering if other devices encode to webm without conversion now, and it’s a format people expect to be able to exchange by default.
- onli 5y agoThe Android emulator when doing a screen recording can only select between .gif and .webm, at least on my system. So especially when working on an Android app I would expect that, yes.
- PurpleFoxy 5y agoWebm and webp have become pretty standard usage on the internet now. Imgur, reddit and many other major sites use it by default when support is detected. Usually when I save an image in the browser it will be webp.
- toastal 5y agoAnd just it time for AV1. 11th-gen Intel chips have hardware decoding too.
- PurpleFoxy 5y agoWebm is one of the formats my screen recorder supports and seems to be the one my coworkers use. It’s pretty convenient since it works without having to install proprietary codecs and it even works on safari now.
- jgalt212 5y agoYes, webm is much much better than GIFs for the same purpose. Webmy.com is my giphy clone, but using webm.
- EduardoBautista 5y agoWebm can’t be played on safari, so I imagine it’s for compatibility reasons.
- tcptraceroute 5y agoThankfully this is no longer the case - Safari has support for WebM as of macOS 11.3.
- opheliate 5y agoSafari on mobile unfortunately still doesn’t seem to support .webm playback as of today.
- PurpleFoxy 5y agoLinux distros by default don’t support mp4. I’d say those are more common GitHub users.
- p00lb0y 5y agoWhy use "blacklisted" here? Why not just say not allowed...
- PurpleFoxy 5y agoBlacklisted is the specific terminology for when a website rejects certain file types. I guess in githubs case it would be that webm is not whitelisted since only 2 formats are permitted.
- darkwater 5y agoBut since in this case it only allows certain other formats, it's the wrong wording.
- mids_hn 5y agoBecause it's a real word that is applied in this case.
- IshKebab 5y agoThey're free to use real specific words that aren't actually offensive if they want. Although in this case I would have thought GitHub uses a whitelist rather than a blacklist, so they should have said "webm isn't whitelisted". (Notice how that is different to "webm is blacklisted" but your alternative wouldn't have captured that distinction.)
- masklinn 5y agoThe limited whitelist of video formats is IME secondary to that of uploads in general. Having to put archives in archives because github rejects the original one is painfully dumb. Had that recently, as GitHub still has no support for private upload I wanted to upload an age-encrypted tarball of the logs / repro (incidentally this otherwise works extremely well as github exposes public keys through an endpoint, you can just age with a few `-r$(curl …)` and you have a file decryptable by all the specified github users, really convenient). But then I had to zip the entire thing again…
- j-james 5y agoWebm files can be uploaded by renaming them to mp4s.