Handling Video Compatibility in Forums

[merefield (Robert)]

@MihirR

This video cannot be rendered because your browser does not support the codec

I’m getting this btw, odd. (On latest Edge on Windows)

[Richie (Richie Rich)]

Off topic briefly… we stopped people uploading videos to our Discourse a few years ago because every single topic with a video in it ended up as a debate about who could play the video and who couldn’t. It completely detracted from the OP’s actual video / topic and they were left feeling very deflated

We force people to upload to Vimeo or YouTube now and just share the video link instead

[Falco]

@Richie

Off topic briefly… we stopped people uploading videos to our Discourse a few years ago because every single topic with a video in it ended up as a debate about who could play the video and who couldn’t. It completely detracted from the OP’s actual video / topic and they were left feeling very deflated

You be happy to find that we are working on integrating a way to automatically transcode video uploads into enough formats for it to be played by all our supported browsers and OSs.