DevForum Video Support

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#1

As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to report the issues that I experience. Currently I have to convert video, that would give a better understanding of what the issue is, to gif which costs me a few bucks. Also, it’s just 10 second that you have in your hand before the clock runs out.

Adding video support to the forum will enable to enhance the bug issues reported and have a better understanding of the issue experienced.

Thank you for your time reading this.

#2

You can link to a youtube video and it will display on the forum. Or you can use one of the billions of free gif capture tools like ShareX.

Also anyone who’s charging you to convert a video to a gif is scamming you. There is an infinite amount of sites and software that will do this for free.

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#3

The developer forums already support videos. If you paste a YouTube link on its own line, it will embed itself into the post.

#4

https://gyazo.com/download?dl=now&lang=en

if you’ve paid to record gifs/webms/video then you made a huge mistake

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#5

I record videos with OBS, upload them to YouTube as an unlisted video on my second channel, and copy-paste the link on my post. It’ll embed automatically, and it only takes about 3 minutes to do all of this.

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#6

This should probably be in inception forum, not feature requests :wink:

#7

From this post it looks like you took a video on your iPhone and bought an app to convert videos to GIF. You should probably ask for a return, since a video to GIF converter should be free and you can find several hundred if you just search for it on Google.

#8

If you’re only using short videos, you can upload to Gfycat.

  • Allows you to upload videos or gifs
  • Displays videos in most cases, but can display gifs as a fallback
  • Embeds work on the devforum by just pasting the link.

I would highly suggest using Gfycat instead of just gifs anyway. Gifs take up a ton more data than videos and load really slowly on low-bandwidth connections. For example, the below Gfy takes…

  • 4,700 KB as a high-quality gif
  • 397 KB as a standard-quality video (8.4% the size of the gif)
  • 2,200 KB as a high-quality video (46.8% the size of the gif)

It displays as a standard-quality video by default. The biggest plus, for you, is that other developers will be much more willing to look at content you post since they don’t have to wait for it to load.

Here is a Gfy of me uploading a video to Gfycat:

https://gfycat.com/FixedFarawayGazelle

I had already uploaded the video previously, so you get to see that one finish encoding first. Also note the massive list of supported file types!

In addition, if you use Windows, ShareX can be configured to upload to Gfycat automatically. It’s how I took an uploaded this Gfy.

#9

Although, I do wonder why mp4/mov support isn’t allowed on here… you’d think it would be.

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