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mp4 not supported?

A topic by Casper Gaming created 1 day ago Views: 56 Replies: 2
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Like others I have been having problems getting gifs to work as of a few days ago. They just appear as a static image of the first frame. I thought I would try mp4 because the dialog box when uploading an image says it is supported:


However, I can't actually select mp4 files by default after clicking "Pick image" and if I change the file dialog box to "all files" to select my mp4 files, the upload doesn't go through and nothing happens. mp4 would be great as the file sizes are much smaller than gif, even once gif starts working again it is tough to get them below 3mb sometimes. Has anyone had luck getting mp4 to work and if so, how did you do it?

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Pretty sure mp4 is a video format, not an image format.

Yes it is a video format, some websites allow you to use video files how you would normally use a gif in page content by adding the tags playsinline, autoplay, muted, and looping to the video element. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/lighthouse/performance/efficient-animated-cont...

I have tried just adding the html video tag myself but while it seems to work ok in the edit view of the page, it doesn't quite work on the project view of the page, and when I try to add it as a video itch embeds it in an iframe that needs to be clicked which isn't what I want either.