# Should Discourse convert GIFs to mp4 video files?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-discourse-convert-gifs-to-mp4-video-files/16739
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [21.Июнь.2014 08:24:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-discourse-convert-gifs-to-mp4-video-files/16739 "2014-06-21T08:24:22Z")
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### Author: ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [21.Июнь.2014 08:24:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/should-discourse-convert-gifs-to-mp4-video-files/16739/1 "2014-06-21T08:24:22Z")

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Just read about this neat trick that Twitter is doing with GIFs:

[http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-telling-you-about-gifs](http://blog.embed.ly/post/89265229166/what-twitter-isnt-telling-you-about-gifs)

Perhaps this is something Discourse would like to mimic in the future.

And for the watercooler: If a video format does everything GIF does and more, and with better compression, are the days of the GIF numbered?

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