As a Roblox developer, it is currently too hard to resolve bug reports becuase users will record footage of the bug happening in the wmv format(the format the in-game recorder uses) and post it to discord, which looks like this: instead of a video embed. This makes it harder to see the contents of the video and debug them since it requires opening a windows computer to watch the video.
If Roblox is able to address this issue, it would improve my development experience because videos of bugs/glitches/etc would be easier to watch and derive information from.
It’s not hard for things to render in mp4 (h264/h265) these days, and everything I have ever known of supports it (usually as a primary or even exclusive format)
Not to mention there are also other objectively better formats which have significantly more support than wmv (for example AVI, an equally ancient yet far more supported + far more optimised format)
I have no idea if webm would be a good format for recording to, but I know a lot of things support it these days (and to my knowledge even prefer it over other formats, lots of booru type sites use webms more than mp4s, and I believe that youtube streams content as webms)
To this day I have no idea why wmv was picked in the first place, cause even back then things like AVI and MP4 were all over the place.
There’s zero reason that an apparent 28.44 billion USD company is the one and only reason anyone remembers what a wmv is in the second half of 2024.
Unless there’s exceptions I don’t know about, Windows 11 comes with a screen recorder (along with a mic option) which is one of the options that appear when you hit the Prt Sc key as if you were going to take a screenshot. I recently got a new laptop with the latest Windows so after many years I no longer have to use the Roblox in-game recorder. If both the latest Mac OS and Windows have built-in screen recorders (just like newer Apple phones and tablets) then it would make some sense to sunset the Roblox recorder as it is only available on computers as far as I know. If it were to stay, on the other hand, the quality needs to be significantly improved, along with changing the file type as possible. On some Roblox-recorded videos, the sound is way off, for example.
instead of a video embed. This makes it harder to see the contents of the video and debug them since it requires opening a windows computer to watch the video.