Of the GSoC ideas outlined, this one is probably the most loosely defined. You’ll probably want to submit a proposal for one other idea, as this one is still a bit “up in the air”.
There’s no mentor assigned yet (we don’t even know how many slots we got) so in the meantime the best use of our time here would be to scope out this task.
There are a couple different ways to do this. I wonder if perhaps a stand-alone microservice would be the way to go, like we did in order to optimize avatar rendering.
- User submits a .gif image. If “Gif converter” service is enabled then:
- Server downloads the gif
- Gif is converted to mp4
- Original gif link is replaced with local .mp4 file.